"He once told me that an August evening……" — Dean Koontz
"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 later."
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site.
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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More August Quotes
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That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn…
— Garth Brooks
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Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001…
— Tom Allen
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I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth…
— Trey Anastasio
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With respect to the creation of the program, I introduced the bill in September 1945, immediately after the end of…
— J. William Fulbright
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The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around…
— Bill McKibben
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Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood…
— Diane Ackerman
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The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the…
— Natalie Babbitt
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic…
— Iannis Xenakis
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room.
— Horace Walpole
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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