December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do -… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. — Archie Macpherson Copy Share Image
The tenor of the comments as we got closer and closer to August got dominated by 'Wouldja please get this over with'… — Nan Hayworth Copy Share Image
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In August 2008, I moved with the man who would become my husband from Boston to a cabin in rural North Carolina. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
“It was august. for years it was august … . there was heat like wet gauze and a high, white sky and… — Paula Mclain 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I… — Franca Sozzani Copy Share Image
This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
Now, therefore, I, Gerald R. Ford, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II,… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
...Nature-the word that stands for the baffling mysteries of the Universe. Steadily, unflinchingly, we strive to pierce the inmost heart of Nature,… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
With 'Half Nelson,' we went to Sundance and then we just bam, bam, bam, festival, festival, festival, festival and then we released… — Anna Boden Copy Share Image
“Like Indian corn in August, the "what ifs" in my life were growing fast. Too fast.” — Avi Copy Share Image
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember… — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realise that it is August: the summer's last stand.” — Sara Baume 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
The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787. — William Bligh Copy Share Image
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why. — Jim Lampley Copy Share Image
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. — Sophal Ear Copy Share Image
Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008. — David Sze Copy Share Image
“the beauty and nobility, the august mission and destiny, of human handwriting.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R:… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause… — Robert Frost 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