August Quotes - Page 10

• Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.

  William Gibson

  Girl, Friday, Destiny

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• In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth women are not merely "tolerated", they are valued.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Men, Video, Speech

  Opening Keynote Address at NGO Forum on Women, Beijing, China, August 31, 1995.

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• 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. Ray needed a face-saving way to hand me over, and August was giving it to him.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Hands, Giving, Saving

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• 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 boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Baby, Teenage

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.3, A&C Black

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• 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 July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it's startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are 'We're number two!

  David Sedaris

  Country, Queens, Two

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• 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 freely offered because I somehow believe that if I don't ask for it, everyone will forget about me: I will be a little kid sent off to sleep-away camp whose parents forget to meet her at the bus when she comes back in August. Or else I think people are nice to me only to be nice to me, that they feel sorry for me because I am such a loser- as if anyone could possibly be that generous.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Sorry, Nice, Believe

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2007). “More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal.

  E. M. Forster

  Country, Home, Men

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.136, RosettaBooks

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• 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. They weren't ready. The attempt was a failure. It could have been a disaster, but it was actually a miracle. Because nobody noticed.

  Lee Child

  July, Miracle, Way

  Lee Child (2001). “Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.292, Penguin

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• Every person on the face of the earth makes mistakes, Lily. Every last one. We're all so human. Your mother made a terrible mistake, but she tried to fix it.' 'Good night,' I said, and rolled onto my side. 'There is nothing perfect,' August said from the doorway. 'There is only life.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Good Night, Mother, Mistake

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.256, Penguin

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• But I didn't frame it; I put into an envelope and sealed it and stuffed it far back into a corner drawer of a filing cabinet. It's there, just in case one of these days I start to lose her. There might be a morning when I wake up and her face isn't the first thing I see. Or a lazy August afternoon when I can't quite recall anymore where the freckles were on her right shoulders. Maybe one of these days, I will not be able to listen to the sound of snow falling and hear her footsteps.

  Jodi Picoult

  Morning, Fall, Filing Cabinet

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.423, Simon and Schuster

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• December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

  Mark Twain

  June, July, Years

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• The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.

  Ann Patchett

  Hot, Tennessee, Life Is

  Ann Patchett (2009). “Truth & Beauty: A Friendship”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• THE DEATH OF LEOPOLD GURSKY Leopold Gursky started dying on August 18, 1920. He died learning to walk. He died standing at the blackboard. And once, also, carrying a heavy tray. He died practicing a new way to sign his name. Opening a window. Washing his genitals in the bath. He died alone, because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone. Or he died thinking about Alma. Or when he chose not to.

  Nicole Krauss

  Thinking, Names, Phones

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Father, Discovery

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• Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Night, Beauty And Love

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• Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Enough, Ifs

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• 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

  Two, Hot, Three

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.237, Bantam

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• In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resulted—Balder, Persephone—but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life, the treacherous sun, and no poetry adorns it because disillusionment cannot be beautiful. Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form, and India fails to accommodate them.

  E. M. Forster

  Beautiful, Men, Europe

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• 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 and Planters peanuts and chopped red onion in bowl.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Squares, Two, Kitchen

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from May 13, 2012

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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

  Morning, Texas, Weather

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• If you look underneath the surface of the Tea Party movement, on the other hand, you will find that it is not sophisticated. It's not like these people have read the economist Friedrich August von Hayek.

  Karl Rove

  Party, Hands, People

  "'Obama Has Turned Out to Be an Utter Disaster'". Interview with Hans Hoyng, Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. October 19, 2010.

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• I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

  Lea Michele

  Spring, Years, Awakening

  "Diva Talk: Chatting with Spring Awakening's Lea Michele Plus News of LuPone, Kritzer and Gravitte". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. November 24, 2006.

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• To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

  Paul Johnson

  Hell, Paradigm

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• In 2009, Scott Rudin sent me August's [Wilson] original screenplay [Fences] and asked me what I wanted to do with it. He wanted to know if I wanted to act in it, direct it or produce it. I said, "Well, let me read it first."

  Denzel Washington

  Firsts, Fence, Produce

  Source: shadowandact.com

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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

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Source: shadowandact.com

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