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October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. -- Hal Borland
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. -- Thomas Wolfe
You ought to know that October is the first Spring month. -- Karel Capek
Bill Astor knew these papers were missing. Stephen showed his hand in October. -- Christine Keeler
And he that will go to bed sober, Falls with the leaf still in October. -- Dario Fo
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. -- Hal Borland
What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October... -- Friedrich Nietzsche
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. -- Henry Ward Beecher
I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play. -- Darrell Royal
Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves! -- Humbert Wolfe
And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now in October. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst... -- Robert Frost
The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mold The pur0ple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold. -- William C. Bryant
October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
October is nature's funeral month. Nature glories in death more than in life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming - October than May. Every green thin loves to die in bright colors. -- Henry Ward Beecher
O'er hill and field October's glories fade; O'er hill and field the blackbirds southward fly; The brown leaves rustle down the forest glade, Where naked branches make a fitful shade, And the lost blooms of Autumn withered lie. -- George Arnold
Chili is not so much food as a state of mind. Addictions to it are formed early in life and the victims never recover. On blue days in October, I get this passionate yearning for a bowl of chili, and I nearly lose my mind. -- Margaret Cousins
October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. -- Henry David Thoreau
Then came October, full of merry glee. -- Edmund Spenser
October baseball is what it's all about. -- James A. Winnefeld, Jr.
October, that's when they pay off for playing ball. -- Reggie Jackson
October: that's when they pay off for playing ball. -- Reggie Jackson
In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899) -- Virchand Gandhi
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. -- Nelson Algren
I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught. -- Ernie Isley
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On October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations. -- Noam Chomsky
The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour. -- Noam Chomsky
First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys. -- Ray Bradbury
Fresh October brings the pheasant, The to gather nuts is pleasant. -- Sara Coleridge
I am planning to return and contest the October elections in Pakistan. -- Benazir Bhutto
From the fall of October, 1980 to March, 1984 I never lost a competition. -- Scott Hamilton
The stillness of October gold Went out like beauty from a face. -- Edwin Arlington Robinson
I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring. -- W. S. Merwin
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? -- Doris Lessing
We must have football. What would this country be without football in October? -- Hunter S. Thompson
I didn't realize it was October until I saw the Chicago Cubs choking. -- Jay Leno
October was always the least dependable of months ... full of ghosts and shadows. -- Joy Fielding
My congratulations on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution. -- David Rockefeller
Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream. -- Stephen King
On October 19, 2009, my sixteenth birthday, Wild Eyes officially became mine! Now it was really happening. -- Abby Sunderland
All revolutions are bloody. The October Revolution was bloodless, but it was only the beginning -- Dmitri Volkogonov
Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that. -- Paul Reiser
The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October. -- Jack Kerouac
Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October. -- Patricia Highsmith
The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April. -- Adrian McKinty
I started working as a reporter in Washington on October 1, 2013, the day the government stopped working. -- Evan Osnos
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression, -- Ben Bernanke
In January 1944 I was called up by the Forced Labor Service, but I deserted on October 10, 1944. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Behind the October Revolution there are more influential personalities than the thinkers and executors of Marxism. -- Vladimir Lenin
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960] -- John F. Kennedy
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet. -- Jerome K. Jerome
October proved a riot a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween. -- Keith Donohue
Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. -- John Leonard
In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital. -- Karen Mills
Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish. -- Arthur Hailey
This third day of October, 1942, is the first of a new era in transportation, that of space travel -- Walter Dornberger
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers. -- Leif Enger
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside. -- John Dyer
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year. -- Vance Joy
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October. -- Alexander Smith
...and so many orchards circled the village that on some crisp October afternoons the whole wold smelled like pie. -- Alice Hoffman
Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters. -- Stephen King
The rinsed foam swirled into one drain that always clogged come October when the maples dropped Canadian propaganda over everything. -- Daniel Handler
You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October. -- Whitey Ford
Jay Z got Cano a big raise, but he got him an extra 30-day vacation -- and it's called October, -- Pete Rose
Both VisiCalc and MultiPlan were available when the IBM PC shipped in October 1981. 1-2-3 didn't hit the market until January 1983. -- Mitch Kapor
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After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the 'sense of utter irresponsibility' shown by the demonstrators. -- Noam Chomsky
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
Sybil's my wife, and on the first day of October, that's the first time I knew Ross was going to run. -- James Stockdale
The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years. -- James A. Michener
a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton. -- Julia Peterkin
When I came up to Cambridge (in October 1921) to read economics, I did not have much idea of what it was about. -- Joan Robinson
I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government. -- Leon Trotsky
We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it. -- Scott Borchetta
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February. -- Mark Twain
I'm talking about the finding in October that is public now of 17 different intelligence agencies saying Russia tried to meddle with our elections. -- George Stephanopoulos
[As of November 17, 2006] 'Noelle's Treasure Tale' has remained at No. 3 on the New York Times children's best seller list since its October 10 release. -- Gloria Estefan
O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. -- Helen Hunt
Btw Pink Floyd album out in October is called 'The Endless River.' Based on 1994 sessions is Rick Wright's swansong and very beautiful. -- Polly Samson
So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale. -- Reginald De Koven
Larry is back in town...The wedding is set for October. Tammy is threatening to have me in the wedding. Some friends they are. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
Boy,' 'October,' 'War,' 'The Unforgettable Fire' and 'The Joshua Tree,' those records, they're part of my musical DNA and structure. -- Taylor Hawkins
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May. -- Denis Norden
You can make a really good film for under a million dollars, like 'October Baby,' or under a half million, like 'Hardflip.' -- John Schneider
The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen. -- William Golding
We have a beautiful little boy who is 18 months old and another little boy to be born in October. We are very excited about that. -- Drew Brees
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991. -- Holly Johnson
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder. -- Dylan Thomas
I take pride in knowing the NFL is pink in October, sparking conversations everywhere about breast cancer and prevention, all in the spirit of my mom. -- DeAngelo Williams
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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. -- Hal Borland
Climaxing a movement for calendar reform which had been developing for at least a century, in 1582 Pope Gregory ordained that October 4 was to be followed by October 15. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
The beauty of Netflix is on the 28th of October they push a button and the film will be in 190 countries at the same moment in 17 languages. -- Werner Herzog
Originally, John Kennedy was going to come speak, and then Lyndon Johnson. Because it was October of '62, neither made it because of the Cuban missile crisis. -- David Maraniss
In October, 1865, occurred what was, in my eyes, the greatest event in the history of the observatory. The new transit circle arrived from Berlin in its boxes. -- Simon Newcomb
Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others ... Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth."(Journal entry, 14 October 1922) -- Katherine Mansfield
When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on. -- Vint Cerf
Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998. -- Ato Boldon
On resigning as collaborator on the memoirs of the former Wallis Warfield Simpson, new summaries, 6 October 1955. You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. -- Cleveland Amory
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October. -- Peter Bart
October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. -- Thomas Merton
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure. -- Thomas Wolfe
Here at the house, I've been decorating it and getting it organized. My best friend moved in in October so I've been getting her settled. She's my personal assistant now. -- Picabo Street
With amazement and disappointment, we discovered in late October and early November that the beaten Russians seemed quite unaware that as a military force they had almost ceased to exist. -- Gunther Blumentritt
I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943. -- John Pople
One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him. -- Willa Cather
Way back in October 2007, I had urged thousands of Australians to vote for Kevin Rudd and Peter Garrett's Labor Party. Why? Because they promised to get tough on illegal Japanese whaling. -- Paul Watson
This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. (10, October, 1942; Handwritten inscription on a photograph) -- Anne Frank
Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
From Nelson county we went to Logan county to see some relatives we had there, and after staying until the middle of October, I returned alone to my home in Missouri. -- Jesse James
On October 19, 1949, I got a telephone call from the Philadelphia (A's) front office informing me I had been traded to the White Sox for Joe Tipton. I was surprised and hurt. -- Nellie Fox
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West. -- Dave Barry
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was 'Hunt for Red October' by Tom Clancy. -- Max Brooks
The first gig we ever played was in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I'm from. I was in a band called the October Game, and we opened up for a Vancouver band. -- Sarah McLachlan
I am tired of the litany of months, September October I am tired of the way the seasons keep changing, mimicking the seasons of the flesh which are real and finite. -- Linda Pastan

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