August Quotes

240 quotes by 213 authors

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself. — Katori Hall
My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few… — Laura Hillenbrand
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. — Langston Hughes
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. — Victor Hugo
It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That… — Jesse Jackson
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell. — Paul Johnson
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. — Ann Landers
I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally… — Lea Michele
I was born in August, no July, 1908. — Satchel Paige
Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you… — Basil Rathbone
August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. — Henry Rollins
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. — Henry Rollins
Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the… — Henry Rollins
If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not… — Karl Rove
Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them. — Samuel Rutherford
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out… — Emmitt Smith
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. — Gloria Swanson
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears. — Steven Tyler
In August most of Europe goes on holiday. — Tony Visconti

Who Wrote These August Quotes

213 authors contributed a total of 240 August Quotes, led by these top contributors: