August Quotes - Page 3

• 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

  Running, True Joy, Texas

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• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  Garth Brooks

  Friday, Football, School

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• 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

  Bidding, Afternoon, Agents

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• 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

  Morning, Air, Years

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• My life is like the summer rose
  That opens to the morning sky,
  But ere the shades of evening close
  Is scattered on the ground - to die.

  Richard Henry Wilde

  Summer, Morning, Sky

  Richard Henry Wilde, “Stanzas”

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• Sometimes I wonder what I'm a-gonna do
  'Cause there ain't no cure for the summertime blues.

  Eddie Cochran

  Summer, Causes, Sometimes

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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

  Summer, Spring, Focus

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• 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

  Hours, Fine, One Time

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• Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.

  Sylvia Plath

  Rain, Writing, Rejection

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.9, Anchor

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• In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

  Tony Visconti

  Holiday, Europe, Goes On

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• Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood.

  Gloria Swanson

  Sunset, Hollywood, Made

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• The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

  Lord Byron

  Summer, Senior, Winter

  Don Juan canto 13, st. 42 (1823)

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• My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Summer, Sweet, Passion

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.1135, Delphi Classics

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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 highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Summer, Spring, Sunset

  Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.3, Macmillan

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• If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Summer, Winter, Garden

  Saint John Chrysostom, Edward Budge, Charles Marriott (1842). “To the People of Antioch”, p.77

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• 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

  Summer, Children, Night

  Thom Gunn (2017). “Selected Poems of Thom Gunn”, p.103, Faber & Faber

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• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Summer, Country, Flower

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• There is a Zone whose even Years
  No Solstice interrupt -
  Whose Sun constructs perpetual Noon
  Whose perfect Seasons wait -
  Whose Summer set in Summer, till
  The Centuries of June
  And Centuries of August cease
  And Consciousness - is Noon.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Years, June

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1999). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.421, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Home, Air, Nostalgia

  William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.123, Modern Library

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• 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

  New York, Spring, Cracks

  "No Third Way Out: An Interview with Vaclav Klaus". Interview with John Fund, reason.com. June 1, 1990.

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• Summoning artists to participate In the august occasions of the state Seems something artists ought to celebrate. Today is for my cause a day of days.

  Robert Frost

  Artist, Today, Causes

  1961 'For John F Kennedy: His Inauguration', 20 Jan. Snowblindness prevented the aged poet from reading beyond the first three lines on the occasion.

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• The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
  All on a summer day:
  The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
  And took them quite away!

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Queens, Heart

  1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.11,'Who Stole the Tarts?'.

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• In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

  August Strindberg

  Moving, Wife, Female

  August Strindberg (1964). “Plays”

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• The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated sounds; this multitude of sounds, seen as totality, is a new sonic event.

  Iannis Xenakis

  Summer, Song, Rain

  Iannis Xenakis (1992). “Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition”, p.9, Pendragon Press

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• Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.

  August Strindberg

  Friendship, Men, Views

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Son of a Servant”, p.122, The Floating Press

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