“Bay leaves granted wishes as July turned into August. I wrote a wish on the leaf and kissed it three times in… — Valerie Dunsmore Copy Share Image
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem.… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In… — George Zimmer Copy Share Image
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
Family . . . the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children. — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
I had my first fight in August of 2009 and haven't looked back since. — Michael Chandler 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
But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment,… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914! — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
By August 2008, we had left Voikovskaya and moved into a wooden dacha in the artists' colony of Sokol in north-west Moscow.… — Luke Harding Copy Share Image
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous… — George Vecsey Copy Share Image
Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of… — Yvette Clarke Copy Share Image
But before Derby go, would they mind telling the rest of the Premier League - the league which it has debased with… — Pete Gill 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
You think OWS is radical? You think 350.org was radical for helping organize mass civil disobedience in D.C. in August against the… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The world has paid a heavy price for the lack of democracy in most of the Middle East. Operation Ajax [CIA code… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August. — David Ortiz Copy Share Image
