August Quotes - Page 11

• I think that's why August [Wilson] named her Rose [in "Fences"]; I really do. She's a rose in her sweetness and her kindness and in everything else, even her anger towards the end.

  Viola Davis

  Kindness, Thinking, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• It is a historical error for those who were not there to just refer to August 28th as 'I Have a Dream' speech day. That is a real disservice to those who were there. It was a sad day. It was not a celebration environment.

  Jesse Jackson

  Dream, Real, Errors

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

  Katori Hall

  Wilson, I Can

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• I went on inactive duty in August 1945, and since I had stayed in such good shape and had played ball on military teams, I was ready to start for the Indians just two days later, against the Tigers.

  Bob Feller

  Military, Team, Two

  "Once Upon a Game: Baseball's Greatest Memories". Book by Alan Schwarz, www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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• On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.

  James Wolcott

  Sexy, Stars, Fighting

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• I want to just say something very, very personal. As you know, Louisiana has undergone a lot of flooding over the last couple of weeks August 2016. And I just want to thank the American people for their generosity and supporting so many victims of that terrible flooding.

  Donna Brazile

  Couple, People, Generosity

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. August 28, 2016.

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• Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

  Andrew Young

  Believe, Law, Rights

  "Why Tuesday?" by Amb. Andrew J. Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2010.

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• Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Summer, Love You, Rolling

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• When I was starting, I was very much influenced by the straight up, eyes to camera style of August Sander. He is really the only one. Had I known then the work of people like Ken Russell, Vivian Maier, Helen Levitt, and Steven Berkoff, they would undoubtedly have influenced me too.

  Derek Ridgers

  Eye, People, Style

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Every summer, around late July and into August, I find myself in Europe, performing at any festival that will have me.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, July, Europe

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• 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!

  Bob Colacello

  Blue, Vintage, Editors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• And when my second book had come out, "Wild Gratitude," I went to Pearl London's class and she worked through different drafts of poems and there were the drafts of my poem, "Wild Gratitude," and I saw that I had begun the poem with the title "August 13th."

  Edward Hirsch

  Gratitude, Book, Class

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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• And it was the title August 13th for most of the way and then near the end, sometime in the process, I got the idea that maybe that would be a somewhat bland title and I got the idea for wild gratitude, which I'm very proud of as a title. So, I think it works best when you find it in the process.

  Edward Hirsch

  Gratitude, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: bigthink.com

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• If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Summer, Humor

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• Freddie [Highmore] is great in the movie [August Rush]. It comes out this Fall and I play a young cellist, a prodigy, who is touring and doing concerts. She's very young and has a one-night fling with an Irish rocker, played Jonathan Rhys Meyers, who is also a really talented musician.

  Keri Russell

  Fall, Night, Play

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• 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

  Law, Two, Priorities

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• I've been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

  Trey Anastasio

  Anniversary, Wedding, Children

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

  Ichiro Suzuki

  Funny, Travel, Kings

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• Gently I stir a white feather fan,
  With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
  I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
  A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

  Li Bai

  Summer, Wind, White

  Li Po, “Summer In The Mountains”

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• This is the river of the great 19th-century landscapists; of Cole, Cropsey and Church, and at the end of the summer it lies motionless under the haze as under a light coat of varnish.

  Judith Thurman

  Summer, Art, Lying

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• The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

  Li Bai

  Hurt, Butterfly, Garden

  Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

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• January cold and desolate;
  February dripping wet;
  March wind ranges;
  April changes;
  Birds sing in tune
  To flowers of May,
  And sunny June
  Brings longest day;
  In scorched July
  The storm-clouds fly,
  Lightning-torn;
  August bears corn,
  September fruit;
  In rough October
  Earth must disrobe her;
  Stars fall and shoot
  In keen November;
  And night is long
  And cold is strong
  In bleak December.

  Christina Rossetti

  Strong, Stars, Spring

  Christina Rossetti (2014). “Rossetti: Poems”, p.128, Everyman's Library

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

  David Carson

  Halloween, Gold Teeth, Ornaments

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• Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the heart expands; where the countenance is ever placid and benign; where her favorite attitude is to stoop to the unfortunate; to hear their cry and to help them; to rescue and relieve; to succor and save; majestic, from its mercy; venerable, from its Lutility; uplifted, without pride; firm without obduracy; beneficent in each preference; lovely, though in her frown!

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Attitude, Inspiration, Heart

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• If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Autumn, July

  Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam

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