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Tag Name "August" (151)

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August is a wicked month.
Edna O'Brien
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August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.
Blaize Clement
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August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.
Henry Rollins
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August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
Henry Rollins
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August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.
Jonathan Safran Foer
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August Strindberg gave me the opportunity to have this incredible story [Miss Julie ], about the class system, about unfairness in life, but also this story about man and woman. What I wanted, because he gave me the freedom, to give her a voice that I missed a little in her.
Liv Ullmann
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August Smith is a child telling the truth. Sometimes the truth is he has to listen to the voices of various creatures he's killed speak to him reproachfully, and he shares that with us, because wouldn't we all? Parties abound in this collection and reading it feels like being invited. You can tell Smith wants you there.
Matthew Rohrer
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August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.
Viola Davis
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August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
W. H. Auden
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August. The lines are the shortest, though.
Steven Rubenstein
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August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.
Ichiro Suzuki
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August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer.
Henry Rollins
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August used to be a sad month for me. As the days went on, the thought of school starting weighed heavily upon my young frame. That, coupled with the oppressive heat and humidity of my native Washington, D.C., only seemed to heighten the misery.
Henry Rollins
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August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.
Sylvia Plath
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August depresses me a little. I don't even feel like eating. And when I don't eat, that's a sure sign of stagnation.
Willard Scott
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Verily, the word of Allah teaches us, and we implicitly believe it, that for a Muslim to kill a Jew, or for him to be killed by a Jew, ensures him immediate entry into Heaven and into the august presence of Allah.
Ibn Saud
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We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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I don't know nothing about the sport. Just tune in August 28th and y'all find out how much I know about the sport.
James Toney
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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 there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.
Emmitt Smith
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I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.
Ethan Suplee
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By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compass'd by the inviolate sea.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.
Francois Furet
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From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.
Andrew Card
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