When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it,… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
Sorrento, August. For two weeks now I haven't heard a German word or understood an Italian one. This way one can manage… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking?… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I am a Leo. I was born in August and I love the sunshine. I'm like a cat. We live in a… — Mary Ann Hoberman Copy Share Image
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an… — Ralph Adams Cram Copy Share Image
Smell brings to mind... a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“August je. Topli sarajevski august. Ali, ljudima je zima. U srcu, najledenije. U očima teški mrak i neizvjesnost. Tuga je stvarna. I… — Alija H. Dubocanin Copy Share Image
You should not use your fireplace, because scientists now believe that, contrary to popular opinion, fireplaces actually remove heat from houses. Really,… — Dave Barry 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
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“I don’t know who I am, and who I’m not, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be, and I miss who… — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
My idea of storytelling is - I wouldn't say it's religious but I would say it's spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich… — David Milch Copy Share Image
On the McLaughlin Report, August 26, 1990: 'There are only two groups that are beating the drums for war in the middle… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest.… — William Braithwaite Copy Share Image
“And in August it will be fifty-two years together.” “Wow,” Oliver says. “That’s amazing.” “I wouldn’t call it amazing,” the woman says,… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like… — Jake Paltrow Copy Share Image
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little… — Justin Winsor Copy Share Image
When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is… — Derek Ridgers Copy Share Image
President Bush insisted that there was nothing in the August 6th, 2001 briefing, which was titled 'Bin Laden determined to attack the… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
I started 'The Rainmaker' in August 1996, and I've been working consistently ever since. It's not like I had some grand plan;… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on… — Bob Feller Copy Share Image
On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay… — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures… — Matthew Rohrer Copy Share Image
As for me, I know nothing else but miracles, Whether I walk the streets of Manhattan, Or dart my sight over the… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
You know, people see [August: Osage County], and I tell them that it's based on my family, and they assume that I… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens.… — Beverley Nichols Copy Share Image
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent.… — Colin Robinson Copy Share Image
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that… — Denis Mackail Copy Share Image
When I came to New York, to Brooklyn, I met Alvin Ailey and Stanley Crouch and August Wilson. They were always putting… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image