August Quotes

240 quotes by 213 authors

On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope… — James Wolcott
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? — Steven Wright
Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been… — Andrew Young
On a sticky August evening two weeks before her due date, Ashima Ganguli stands in the kitchen of a Central Square apartment, combining Rice Krispies… — Jhumpa Lahiri
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resultedâ€”Balder, Persephoneâ€”but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. — Jane Austen
I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage… — Jeffrey Eugenides
In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued." (From a speech read on video on… — Aung San Suu Kyi
How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build… — E. M. Forster
I'd heard August say more than once, "If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you." T.… — Sue Monk Kidd
They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon.… — Lee Child
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. — Pat Conroy
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. — William Gibson
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say while some fields will blossom and others… — Kent Nerburn
Every day we're told that we live in the greatest country on earth. And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between… — David Sedaris
The immense accretion of flesh which had descended on her in middle life like a flood of lava on a doomed city had changed her… — Edith Wharton
I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days… — Dean Koontz
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright — Sue Monk Kidd
Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of… — Salman Rushdie

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