Funny August Sayings

#1. I allowed myself a little bit of relief. That was a lot less bad than I though it would be.
"Of course, we'll also have to have a parent-teacher conference. Do you have a parent available to call right now?"
Never mind. That was enough to ruin my whole year.

August Westman

#2. Ten years. Ten years. Rachel missed her father every day. Not consciously, but his absence was a part of her, like a vine that wraps around a structure, sustains it even as it weakens it.

Laura Lippman

#3. From: Christian Grey
Subject: &*%$&*&*
Date: August 23 2011 11:23
To: Anastasia Grey
Believe me when I say there are a great many things he'd like to do to your ass right now. Firing you is not one of them.
Christian Grey
CEO & Ass man, Grey Enterprises Holdings, Inc.

E.L. James

#4. That, and you have quite the temper."
I play fully punched his arm. "Watch it, before you really feel my wrath.

August Westman

#5. The fact that you and I are acquaintances only interested and amused the ghosts further. Gossip bunch, really.

August Westman

#6. My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

Duane Hanson

#7. I was just about to open the door, when it opened up right in front of me. And there stood my parents.
Is there a word for that moment when two parties are so equally shocked to see each other given the circumstances that all they can do is stare at each other, openmouthed?

August Westman

#8. I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

Clint Eastwood

#9. Sometimes, when the world gets too hard to live in, I come here for vodka and tonic.

Haruki Murakami

#10. While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song.

David Antin

#11. The earth seemed unearthly.

Joseph Conrad

#12. Doctor told me I've got two weeks to live. I said: "Can I have the last week in July and the 1st week in August?"

Frank Carson

#13. France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Listen to me," he said, pulling off his coat. "You need to stay awake."
She almost laughed, a shallow chuckle cut short by pain.
He tore the lining from the Colton jacket. "What's so funny?"
"You're a really shitty monster, August Flynn.

Victoria Schwab

#15. Polly Esther Doe was born at 8:03 a.m. on August 14.

Adam Rex

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

Ichiro Suzuki

#17. Before you can become a writer, you have to be a reader, and a reader of everything, at that. To the best of my recollection, I became a reader at the age of 10 and have never stopped. Like many authors, I read all sorts of books all the time, and it is amazing how the mind fills up.

Terry Pratchett

#18. I'm capable of anything, my imagination can give me wings

Nas

#19. You train hard and I'll train hard, and may the best man win, and good luck to both of us.

Manny Pacquiao