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
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 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
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
I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Richard [Griffiths] was by my side during two of the most important moments of my career. In August 2000, before official production… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
On the 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine,... I proposed to make… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The Pond" August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head,… — Kenneth Grahame 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
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman 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
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
“Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and… — Louis Bromfield Copy Share Image
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
It was great to do August Rush and have all the challenges of playing that character, especially the American accent for the… — Freddie Highmore Copy Share Image
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women… — Zach Wamp Copy Share Image
“August stared at her, aghast. "Did I know that kissing you would bring your soul to surface? That - THAT - would… — Victoria Schwab 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
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
How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how complicate, how wonderful is man! Distinguished link in being's endless chain! Midway from… — Edward Young 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
On the August night in 1933 when General Gerardo Machado, then president of Cuba, flew out of Havana into exile, he took… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I… — Kate Baldwin Copy Share Image
I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for… — Ibn Saud Copy Share Image
I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar… — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
In defense of games, I want to point out that the writing in plays, including everything by August Strindberg and The Lion… — Erik Wolpaw Copy Share Image
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There is a Zone whose even Years No Solstice interrupt - Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon Whose perfect Seasons wait - Whose… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image