Quotes About August

Out of the deep and endless universe There came a greater Mystery, a Shape, A Something sad, inscrutable, august— One to confront the worlds and question them.

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.

Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. So August gave way to September and there were few complaints.

The sky was a sheet of slate but it was still warm, an August afternoon that let you know its kind was running out.

It was a night in late August, a night that rekindled in rattling windows and tree branch palsy that lost recollection of autumn, misplaced for the succession of bright summer distractions, trapped heat in small rooms and sweaty underarms.

August passed like a dancer, graceful and sweating.

On the day before the fleet's departure from Seville, August 9, 1519, Magellan was summoned from his frantic last-minute

In June we picked the clover, And sea-shells in July: There was no silence at the door, No word from the sky. A hand came out of August And flicked his life away: We had not time to bargain, mope, Moralize, or pray.

We moved to the house behind the cemetery at the beginning of July. By the beginning of August, I was very, very sick.

O fair are thy days, September, The dearest of all the year; Thou art far enough from November, Its shadows we need not fear; Soon after the heat of August Thou comest our hearts to cheer, With ripened fruits from the buds of spring, With golden sheaves from fields of green.

The Pirates Abandon Ship Upon his return from Europe in August 1985, while he was casting about for what to

Lasseter, August 1997: His cherubic face and demeanor masked an artistic perfectionism

Lucas remembered a sweltering August afternoon when he and Burt had bellowed laughter at a trade article detailing Kroeger's "meteoric rise" to prosperity. "I thought meteors fell down, not up.

There was a time, usually late in August, when summer struck the trees with dazzling power and they were rich with leaves but then became, suddenly one day, strangely still, as if in expectation and at that moment aware. They knew. Everything knew, the beetles, the frogs, the crows solemnly walking across the lawn. The sun was at its zenith and embraced the world, but it was ending, all that one loved was at risk.

Bowman, too, had been born in a great city, in the French Hospital in Manhattan, in the burning heat of August and very early in the morning when all geniuses are born, as Pearson once told him. There had been an unbreathing stillness, and near dawn faint, distant thunder. It grew slowly louder, then gusts of cooler air before a tremendous storm broke with lightning and sheets of rain, and when it was over

they have enough testosterone between them, if testosterone were electricity they could light up New York City for the month of August

On the anvil of August, the city lay paralyzed, stunned into stupidity by the heat.

Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.

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.

I hope for a light grief in old age. I was born in Rome and it has returned to me. My autumn was a kind of she-wolf, And August - the month of Caesars - smiled at me.

The road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

I wasn't talking about the weather, said Abe. Although it's the hottest, most humid, most miserable goddamn hellhole I've ever been in. Worse than Burma in '43. Worse than Singapore in typhoon weather. Jesus, it's worse than Washington in August.

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.