Top 441 August Quotes & Sayings

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.

In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

August is a wicked month.

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.

Boston has two seasons: August and winter.

Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in August, examinations get easier and Heathrow become the world's worst airport? The answer lies not in reality but in appearance. News editors abhor a vacuum. Half an hour of airtime and 10 pages of news must be filled each day, whatever the weather.

The west coast of Corsica on a boat in August is probably as beautiful as it gets.

Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.

On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.

Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible.

My doctor gave me two weeks to live. I hope they're in August.

And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!

August in Kansas City is hotter than two rats f**king in a sock.

I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.

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

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

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

On August 30, 1982, I get issued a copyright officially recognizing me as the inventor of e-mail.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

August in Florida is God's way of reminding us who's in charge.

I don't think you see very many losing teams working out in August with 10 people.

Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any of the actors who did the original production of 'August' could have done the film of 'August.' I don't think any of them were particularly surprised when they didn't wind up doing the film.

I was first introduced to August Wilson in the 80s when Charles Dutton did Ma Rainey and James Earl Jones and Courtney Vance did Fences. I've long considered August Wilson to be one of the five greatest playwrights in American history.

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.

A lot of people say two-a-days is the time to get them tough. It's over by then. You better not be getting tough in August. Our whole philosophy in August is to get ready for the first game. June and July are to get ready for August. Our whole goal in the middle of February is to develop toughness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. [Light in August]

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.

August 1 is the beginning of football season to me.

The English winter - ending in July to recommence in August

The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.

Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.

There could be oil coming up until August.

We are the first to honour the memories of those who perished through slavery, by declaring August 1 as Emancipation Day.

The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.

I really started trying to get my act together in August of 2002.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

I had my first fight in August of 2009 and haven't looked back since.

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914!

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

August is the time when I can feel myself getting stronger as a comedian. I'm at the height of my powers come September.

I hate being in New York in August. It's so hot, and there's no one around. I make it my mission to never play in August. Everyone else is on vacation anyway. It's a good time to not be on the stage and to just prepare for the fall, which is the best.

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.

Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong. Don't think the summer is over, even when roses droop and turn brown and the stars shift position in the sky. Never presume August is a safe or reliable time of the year.

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.

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.

It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.

August. The lines are the shortest, though.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

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

From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August.

I was honored to have an opportunity to speak on August 28th, 1963.

August 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad.

nothing happens in August - except when something really happens in August. World War I began in August, Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait began in August, al Qaida was preparing to bring down the World Trade Center in August. August, in other words, is the time when all of us should prepare our backup plans, chart our reversals of course, [and] think through possible paradigm changes.

I'm as corny as Kansas in August.

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.

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

August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.