October/Fall
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery
“October, baptize me with leaves! Swaddle me in corduroy and nurse me with split pea soup. October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!”
– Rainbow Rowell
“October had tremendous possibility. The summer’s oppressive heat was a distant memory, and the golden leaves promised a world full of beautiful adventures. They made me believe in miracles.”
– Sarah Guillory
“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.”
– John Sinor
“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop
Halloween
“Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.”
– Robert Englund
“I don’t know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.”
– Robert Brault
“Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.”
– Judith Olney
“I’m a great lover of visual art and I will happily discuss the color and texture of Van Gogh’s Starry Night…. But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten to fifteen pounds of candy, a riot of colored wrappers and hopeful fonts, snub-nosed chocolate bars and SweeTARTS the seductive rattle of Jujyfruits and Good & Plenty and lollipop sticks all akimbo, the foil ends of mini LifeSavers packs twinkling like dimes, and a thick sugary perfume rising up from the pillowcase. And more so, the pleasure of pouring out the contents onto the rug in the TV room, of cataloging the take according to a strict Freak Hierarchy, calling for all chocolate products to be immediately quarantined, sorted, and closely guarded, with higher-quality fruit chews and caramels next, then hard candies, and last of all anything organic (the loathsome raisins). A brief period of barter with my brothers might ensue. For the most part, I simply lay amid my trove and occasionally massed the candy into a pile which I could sort of dive into, à la Scrooge McDuck and his gold ducats.”
– Steve Almond
National Magic Week
(4th week in October)
“I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.”
– J.K. Rowling
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
– W.B. Yeats
“Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.”
– Karl Germain
American Bandstand Premiers – October 7
“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”
– Dick Clark
“We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.”
– Paul Simon
“If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it ‘Chuck Berry’.”
– John Lennon
“The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.”
– Billy Joel
“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.”
– Elvis Presley
“Some guy said to me: Don’t you think you’re too old to sing rock n’ roll? I said: You’d better check with Mick Jagger.”
– Cher