Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible. Votes: 5
Leslie FiedlerOn 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam. Votes: 5
Hans FrankWhile in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885. Votes: 5
Calamity JaneThe August Decrees were an improvised parliamentary reaction to an emergency situation. Votes: 3
Francois FuretTinsel in February, tinsel in August. There are things in a man besides his reason. Votes: 3
Wallace StevensAugust 28th 2012. Remember that date. It marks the day when the world went raving mad. Votes: 3
George MonbiotYou'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. Votes: 3
David CarsonThe only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. Votes: 3
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe road made wet by the water of August shines like it was cut in full moonlight Votes: 3
Pablo NerudaThe ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787. Votes: 3
William BlighLike a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. Votes: 3
Langston HughesPunch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse - except August. Votes: 3
Katherine PatersonThe thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August. Votes: 3
Ann PatchettAugust rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. Votes: 3
Sylvia PlathMeanwhile after failing the bar twice, I knew some people in New York and moved here in August '71. Votes: 3
Robert QuineHero is not the word I would use to describe myself on August 20. The word I would use is vessel. Votes: 3
Antoinette TuffMy timingâs a little off. But Iâm about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August. Votes: 3
David OrtizIt must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity. Votes: 1 Dan Jenkins
August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I've been listening to in the late spring and summer. Votes: 1 Henry Rollins
The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears. Votes: 1 Steven Tyler