Welcome February Sayings

#1. Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices.
[Ten rules for writing fiction (The Guardian, 20 February 2010)]

Helen Dunmore

#2. I, Billy Pilgrim, the tape begins, will die, have died, and always will die on February thirteenth, 1976.

Kurt Vonnegut

#3. In February 1991, I was rushed to the hospital in Los Angeles to have my feet amputated. Three years earlier, I had broken the national 100 meters hurdles record while a student at UCLA and was a favourite for the event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics.

Gail Devers

#4. Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
There are things in a man besides his reason.

Wallace Stevens

#5. Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

Edward Abbey

#6. I just did something on a show on UPN called 'Girlfriends' that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.

Christopher Darden

#7. As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

Claire Tomalin

#8. February makes a bridge and March breaks it.

Georges Hebert

#9. That's why I drove there in the middle of February, patches of snow still on the fields. I had the strong feeling that somewhere between Sluejow, Wygwizdow, and Solec time had ground to a halt or simply evaporated or melted like a dream and no longer separated us from our childhood.

Andrzej Stasiuk

#10. In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.

Pepper Schwartz

#11. Late February days; and now, at last,
Might you have thought that
Winter's woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air.

William Morris

#12. It was a Tuesday in February. Many my life's most awful moments have taken place on Tuesdays. And what is February if not the Tuesday of the year?

Stephen Fry

#13. It's February the 22ndAnd I can't tell a lie.

Irving Berlin

#14. They say that February is the shortest month, but you know they could be wrong.

Tom Robbins

#15. If Christ does not appear to meet his 144,000 faithful shortly after midnight on February 6th or 7th, it means that my calculations, based on the Bible, must be revised.

Margaret Davis Bowen

#16. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
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Patricia J. Telesco

#17. Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering.

William C. Bryant

#18. January brings the snow / Makes your feet and fingers glow / February's ice and sleet / Freeze the toes right off your feet / Welcome March with wintry wind / Would thou wer't not so unkind / April brings the sweet spring showers / On and on for hours and hours ...

Michael Flanders

#19. January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#20. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

Cyril Connolly

#21. Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)

Mae West

#22. What happens in Bermondsey on February 24th will be a pointer to the rest of the country as far as Labour's prospects are concerned.

Peter Tatchell

#23. and was there for the birth, on 25 February

Paula McLain

#24. I mean am I crazy or is it a little rude to answer your phone in the middle of a fucking song?
February 13, 2008. Milan Blood Ball

Jared Leto

#25. The colder the weather, the bigger the gun
Got to rock a lot of clothes if you tryina hide one
In June it's .22's, February it's fifths
But all year round, it's 616.

Willie The Kid

#26. The frequency of automobile accidents is declining in North Carolina, but the severity of accidents involving bodily injury is rising in the state. That's something we will keep our eyes on in preparing our request next February.

Tim Lucas

#27. His thirst was as tall as he was and more the man. It walked alone and was the only real life in the wind-weary February night.

Lester Goran

#28. Look at the films of Walt Disney: 'Snow White' came out in February 1938, and I can't think of another film from that year that's watched as much. The same is true of 'Bambi,' 'Dumbo' ... even, frankly, 'Toy Story,' which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.

John Lasseter

#29. Winter
The season between autumn and spring, comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
the coldest months of the year:
December, January and February.

A period of inactivity or decay.

Cecelia Ahern

#30. Let me just suggest to everybody, and I hear - last February [2015], I said we needed to have people on the ground in a coalition with Europe and our allies. This is not going to get done just by working with the Sunnis. And it is not going to get done if we just embed a few people.

John Kasich

#31. Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.

David Letterman

#32. The only thing we should scream into the world is love.

Jill Telford

#33. February 9th was HIS day. The day he always striked.

Mary Papas

#34. The reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.

Katherine Paterson

#35. Then, on the evening of February 11, 2045, an avatar's name appeared at the top of the Scoreboard, for the whole world to see.

Ernest Cline

#36. February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson