Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

August depresses me a little. I don’t even feel like eating. And when I don’t eat, that’s a sure sign of stagnation.

It’s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.

One of the most important tools for exercising power is the systematic generation of fear.

August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.

I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me. Although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides.

Alice Hoffman: (born March 16, 1952). American novelist and young-adult and children’s writer, best known for her 1995 novel Practical Magic, which was adapted for a 1998 film of the same name. Many of her works fall into the genre of magic realism and contain elements of magic, irony, and non-standard romances and relationships. Always… Lees verder Alice Hoffman

August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.

The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.

We used to play football on the levee with no shirts on in the summer August in New Orleans, and my skin would turn red.

Jane Smiley: (geboren op 26 september 1949). Amerikaanse schrijfster. Ze won de Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 voor haar roman A Thousand Acres (1991). Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch. Leaving… Lees verder Jane Smiley