Top August Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of August quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of David Ortiz
My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.
- David Ortiz
Collection: August
Image of Mary-Louise Parker
I'm naked in Esquire in August. I was naked on the set the other day. I'm always naked. I'm naked right now, in fact.
- Mary-Louise Parker
Collection: August
Image of David Trimble
We had the IRA ceasefire in August 1994 and a lot of people assumed that a deal had been done - which wasn't right.
- David Trimble
Collection: August
Image of Carol Browner
There could be oil coming up until August.
- Carol Browner
Collection: August
Image of Michael Klare
The invasion of Iraq was not an unprecedented event; it really was the natural extension of a conflict with Iraq that began on August 2, 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and occupied Kuwait, which was a major oil supplier to the United States.
- Michael Klare
Collection: August
Image of Dorothea Benton Frank
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult.
- Dorothea Benton Frank
Collection: August
Image of Benjamin Wiker
In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.
- Benjamin Wiker
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Image of Kenneth O. Morgan
Britain, the first industrial nation, had offered the world a remarkable public experiment in liberal, capitalist democracy whose success was premised upon free trade and world peace. Tuesday, 4 August 1914 brought that experiment to an abrupt halt.
- Kenneth O. Morgan
Collection: August
Image of Franca Sozzani
The only time I was really surprised was the reaction to the [shoot dedicated to the] BP oil [spill in 2010]. I didn't expect it at all. It was for the August issue, perhaps one of the less relevant months, but there was so much buzz. It was picked up all over the American television, but I defended my position. I don't understand those that say that a magazine such as Vogue should not talk about these things.
- Franca Sozzani
Collection: August
Image of William Doyle
It [August 10th 1792] was the bloodiest day of the Revolution so far, but also one of the most decisive.
- William Doyle
Collection: August
Image of Michael Maloney
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold.
- Michael Maloney
Collection: August
Image of Francois Furet
The August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation.
- Francois Furet
Collection: August
Image of Robert Grosseteste
And in doing this I advise you to send to the best manors of your lands those of your household in whom you place most confidence to be present in August at the leading of the corn, and to guard it as aforesaid.
- Robert Grosseteste
Collection: August
Image of David Sze
Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.
- David Sze
Collection: August
Image of Ted Turner
When I got my statement in January, I was worth $2.2 billion. Then I got another statement in August that said I was worth $3.2 billion. So I figure it's only nine months' earnings, who cares?
- Ted Turner
Collection: August
Image of Flannery O'Connor
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
- Flannery O'Connor
Collection: August
Image of George Washington
May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.
- George Washington
Collection: August
Image of Ann Patchett
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
- Ann Patchett
Collection: August
Image of Henry Rollins
August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina.
- Henry Rollins
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Image of Robert James Waller
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
- Robert James Waller
Collection: August
Image of Saul Bellow
I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August.
- Saul Bellow
Collection: August
Image of Rainer Maria Rilke
Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Collection: August
Image of Donald Trump
The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system would be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in august and September in 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were in the United States expired visas.
- Donald Trump
Collection: August
Image of Gertrude Stein
August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.
- Gertrude Stein
Collection: August
Image of Denise Levertov
Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.
- Denise Levertov
Collection: August
Image of Denzel Washington
We just had to stay out-of-the-way [in Fences]. [August Wilson] already wrote a masterpiece. And you really don't know how it's going to work until you get it in front of an audience.
- Denzel Washington
Collection: August
Image of Denzel Washington
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
Collection: August
Image of Thomas Tusser
Dry August and warm, Doth harvest no harm.
- Thomas Tusser
Collection: August
Image of Marcel Proust
Do you suppose that it is within your power to insult me? You evidently are not aware to whom you are speaking? Do you imagine that the envenomed spittle of five hundred little gentlemen of your type, heaped one upon another, would succeed in slobbering so much as the tips of my august toes?
- Marcel Proust
Collection: August
Image of Denzel Washington
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.
- Denzel Washington
Collection: August
Image of Edna O'Brien
August is a wicked month.
- Edna O'Brien
Collection: August
Image of Jeanette Winterson
August. We were arguing. You want love to be like this every day don't you? 92 degrees even in the shade.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: August
Image of Margaret Thatcher
When in August 1793 a British delegation showed their hosts a terrestrial globe, it turned into a diplomatic incident, for the Chinese were furious to see that their empire covered so little of it. For centuries the Chinese had thought of themselves as 'The Middle Kingdom', that is the centre of the civilized world. To see otherwise was a shock.
- Margaret Thatcher
Collection: August
Image of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.
- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Collection: August
Image of George Carlin
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
Collection: August
Image of George H. W. Bush
This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.
- George H. W. Bush
Collection: August
Image of Pat Conroy
Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.
- Pat Conroy
Collection: August
Image of W. H. Auden
August for the people and their favourite islands. Daily the steamers sidle up to meet The effusive welcome of the pier.
- W. H. Auden
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Image of Nicholas Stoller
I'm like really bad at like remembering all these things, but basically we finished...we wrapped in August and we locked in February. It was like we did our first friends and family screening I would say 8-weeks after we locked...after we wrapped or 8-weeks after we wrapped.
- Nicholas Stoller
Collection: August
Image of Oscar Hammerstein II
I'm as corny as Kansas in August.
- Oscar Hammerstein II
Collection: August
Image of John Hodgman
Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.
- John Hodgman
Collection: August
Image of Sue Monk Kidd
Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright
- Sue Monk Kidd
Collection: August
Image of Sue Monk Kidd
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
Collection: August
Image of Sue Monk Kidd
Did you know there are thirty-two names for love in one of the Eskimo languages?" August said. "And we just have this one. We are so limited, you have to use the same word.
- Sue Monk Kidd
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Image of Dean Koontz
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
Collection: August
Image of Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Collection: August
Image of John Adams
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.
- John Adams
Collection: August