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I was born in August, no July, 1908. -- Satchel Paige
In August most of Europe goes on holiday. -- Tony Visconti
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
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun. -- Kent Nerburn
The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off. -- Joseph Epstein
The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand. -- William Dampier
I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879. -- Carl Spitteler
I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002. -- Ethan Suplee
Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. -- Leslie Fiedler
Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood. -- Gloria Swanson
On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam. -- Hans Frank
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. -- Calamity Jane
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 days. -- Laura Hillenbrand
Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people. -- Tom Felton
What I learned as an actor was the only way you could really do August Wilson's work, you had to leave an ounce of your essence on that stage,... Otherwise it was impossible. -- Charles S. Dutton
I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me. -- Rod Taylor
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 at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will. -- Basil Rathbone
I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do. -- Dawn Powell
I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about. -- Jeffrey Hunter
Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument. -- Justin Winsor
I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.' -- Chris Matthews
The August sun, God's blood-blister... -- Donald E. Westlake
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. -- Ann Landers
breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ... -- Denise Levertov
Boston has two seasons: August and winter. -- Billy Herman
I'm as corny as Kansas in August. -- Oscar Hammerstein II
August. The lines are the shortest, though. -- Steven Rubenstein
August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied. -- Joseph Wood Krutch
Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August] -- William Faulkner
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm. -- Thomas Tusser
There could be oil coming up until August. -- Carol Browner
To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell. -- Paul Johnson
The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August -- Lord Byron
August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. -- Henry Rollins
August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge. -- Blaize Clement
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. -- Francois Furet
My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August. -- Ronnie Shakes
Looks like macho boy's cool just melted like a Slush Puppie in August. -- Darynda Jones
From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August. -- Andrew Card
August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock. -- Ichiro Suzuki
Tinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason. -- Wallace Stevens
August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. -- George Monbiot
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. -- David Carson
I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself. -- Katori Hall
August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot. -- Gertrude Stein
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. -- William Gibson
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight -- Pablo Neruda
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. -- Michael Maloney
The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787. -- William Bligh
Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. -- Langston Hughes
Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August. -- Katherine Paterson
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. -- Ann Patchett
News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966) -- John Lennon
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive. -- William Doyle
Meanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. -- Robert Quine
I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know. -- Tove Jansson
August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. -- Sylvia Plath
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina. -- Henry Rollins
We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day. -- Anthony Carmona
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk. -- Pat Conroy
What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man was that age which came to an end in August 1914. -- John Maynard Keynes
August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. -- Henry Rollins
She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why. -- Jim Lampley
Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008. -- David Sze
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright -- Sue Monk Kidd
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade. -- Jeanette Winterson
Bernard Vonnegut, named for his paternal grandfather, was born August 29, 1914. He was a serious-looking little boy, even in informal photographs. -- Charles J. Shields
My timingâ??s a little off. But Iâ??m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August. -- David Ortiz
Hero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel. -- Antoinette Tuff
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier. -- W. H. Auden
Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me. -- Henry Rollins
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older. -- Li Bai
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. -- Stephen Colbert
Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up. -- Lillete Dubey
I predicted in August that Celtic would reach the final. On the eve of that final I stand by that prediction. -- Archie Macpherson
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature. -- Rainer Maria Rilke
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
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. -- Mark Twain
The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time. -- Simon Kernick
From 1965 to 1973, more munitions fell on Cambodia than on all of World War II Japan, including the two nuclear bombs of August 1945. -- Sophal Ear
they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August -- Janet Evanovich
We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules. -- Daniel Webster
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
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known. -- Benjamin Wiker
Under current federal policy on human embryonic stem cell research, only those stem cell lines derived before August 9, 2001 are eligible for federally funded research. -- Tom Allen
I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact, -- Mary-Louise Parker
May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late. -- George Washington
How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in given light. The children put their toys to grass All the warm wakeful August night. -- Thom Gunn
Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep. -- Lauren Oliver
The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall. -- Edmund Clarence Stedman
Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?" -- Frank Carson
Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer -- Jenny Han
One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was. -- George Carlin
Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar... -- William Faulkner
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. -- Dean Koontz
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
I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn. -- Robert Lowell
Iraqis will never forget that on 8 August 1990 Kuwait became part of Iraq legally, constitutionally and actually. It continued to do so until last night, when withdrawal began. -- Saddam Hussein
I think that sense of unreality inspired me to write the story within the book that [August] Brill tells himself, one of the stories he tells himself. -- Paul Auster
In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled"?even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball. -- George Vecsey
On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. -- Ahmed Zewail
No player can become accustomed to New York's climate in August in a few days. The playing conditions, the courts in New York and France are very different. -- Helen Wills
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963. -- Gordon Lightfoot
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August. -- Saul Bellow
I have Vie Luxe candles in every room. In 2006 I spent the month of August in Sardinia, and the scent reminds me of the wonderful time we had. -- Tamara Mellon
The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art. -- Ralph Adams Cram
When my father returned home on the twenty-first of August 1983, he had a speech prepared. Filipinos never got to hear it, because he was murdered right on the tarmac. -- Benigno Aquino III
Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an author."[Jumbo.com, 21 August 2012] -- Neil Gaiman
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know. -- John Hodgman
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 air with ever-increasing intensity. -- Henry Rollins
In August of 2002, I survived a car accident. Although I can still see the van speeding toward us, I cannot bring to mind the crash itself - only its aftermath. -- Siri Hustvedt
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July. -- Rick Bass
It was a broiling afternoon of mid-August in Brinoe and everybody who was anybody had long ago quit its burning pavements and chilly palaces for the mountains or the sea. -- Louis Bromfield
Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer; and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day. -- Donald G. Mitchell
American naturalism is what my indulgent actor side loves: a bit of Tennessee Williams, a bit of Clifford Odets, August Wilson - I would just love to tackle some of that. -- Emilia Clarke
I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour. -- Trey Anastasio
It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity. -- Dan Jenkins
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents." -- Vaclav Klaus
Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents. -- Vaclav Klaus

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