The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time. — Simon Kernick Copy Share Image
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. — Calamity Jane Copy Share Image
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy… — Joseph Epstein Copy Share Image
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the… — Jeffrey Hunter Copy Share Image
In January 2013, I told the people in the Justice Department after the re-election that I wanted to focus on reforming the… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system would be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I… — Leonard Boswell Copy Share Image
Many people I know in Los Angeles believe that the Sixties ended abruptly on August 9, 1969, ended at the exact moment… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples.… — Daniel J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
“You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
One stifling summer afternoon last August, in the attic of a tiny stone house in Pennsylvania, I made a most interesting discovery:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I had the advantage, that I know Swedish. So I had the Swedish book and I had a lot of English translations,… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
I only missed nine Premier League games from a possible 228 between August 2004 and May 2010. — Jamie Carragher Copy Share Image
I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
“There was a midsummer restlessness abroad—early August with imprudent loves and impulsive crimes.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the… — James Toney Copy Share Image
“We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I got in trouble with my girlfriend's Dad. He said, 'I want my daughter back by… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to… — Steven Tyler Copy Share Image
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which… — David Trimble Copy Share Image
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. — Robert Quine Copy Share Image
August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image