Famous Quotes & Sayings

We sent Mr. Peterson a letter stating that the city had approached Ms. Kramer with an offer to buy the property and she accepted, ... On August 17, he told me he wanted to have an auction. As a courtesy, I gave him until Sept, 16 to go on the property to get anything of value.

Giulio Tremonti

We still have time to stop European Union states from building national barriers. If not, we risk the impact of August 1914.

Kenny Leon

To try talking about my relationship with August and the contributions of that man, I get very emotional just thinking about it,

Traditionally our slowest month, August saw a material increase of 61.9 percent in new software license revenue compared to August of fiscal year 2005.

Mike Malone

We had anticipated this transaction when we initially purchased shares of KTM in August ,

We are concerned about this e-mail report and our investigators will follow up with BP for more information. Mechanical integrity has already been identified as an important issue in the incidents on March 23, July 28 and August 10.

Those are $100,000 bricks of $100 bills and that?s $2 million there. This, in fact, is a payment that we made on the 1st of August to a company called Custer Battles.

We are looking at that. There is certainly no simple way when you look at the time line. This regulation expires in August 2007. We are going to have to do something because we will have to come to the commission in January. The regulation doesn't come into effect until September.

Wolfgang Paul

I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.

J. G. Ballard

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.

Gore Vidal

In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba.

You do feel this incredible spirit in this woman. It's a wonderful little window on an individual story that you would never have seen on television in August or September.

Al Groh

We don't have Pawtucket, ... There's a lot of catching up to do with Ahmad's game, things he hasn't done since August 5 to polish and improve his game.

It was in August or September of 1995 that I met Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana and I met through Oonagh Toffolo, whose husband was recovering from heart surgery at the Royal Brompton. At the time, I was working for Professor Yacoub, the heart surgeon, and Mr. Toffolo was one of his patients, so I was involved in his medical treatment and care.

We are pleased that local consumption has increased from 5% to 25% since August 2004.

Richard Norton Smith

I was 14 years old in August of 1968 and had earned the money and had managed to get tickets as a guest of the Massachusetts delegation to the Republican convention in Miami and where I was on the floor in the Rockefeller demonstrations.

Sean Casey

Right now it's just too early. It's just too early to start thinking about hitting the panic button. If it's in July or August and you're just 30 games under and it's just a joke, then you've got to find a way to prepare yourself. But right now nobody's panicking.

People were encouraged that the Fed may not have to raise rates August 22.

My life has been on the line since August 2004.

One of the things I'm proudest of in my career is producing so much of August's work here. I'm going to believe that since August is such feisty guy, he'll meet this health challenge like he's met the challenge of writing an extraordinary cultural history.

One of the things that we kicked around, we moved out of our house in August 2001 and we were in storage until November. Possibly something got mishandled during storage and went someplace else.

One forgets that before August, there was a very limited literature for black actors. August created a generation of actors, a huge number of very talented people who have their careers because of the depth and complexity they could find in the roles he wrote. And the work is so undeniably powerful that it crosses all kinds of lines.

Hope Partlow

I am so excited about working with Jesse, ... I haven't met him yet, but I hear he is a really nice guy and it will be my pleasure to work with him on this tour which will bring us to New Orleans on August 9.

Certainly, the degree of strength through August is not sustainable; we'll get a much weaker number in September. But the third quarter as a whole will still show 5 to 6 percent consumer spending growth, even if we get a negative number in September.

But August stands apart. He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus: the lives of black people.

Maybe the tone will give us some sense of whether its June or August that the Fed will raise rates.

Francois Hollande

Now their freedom has been secured, informing parliament about all the conditions of how the discussions have unfolded since August is the least thing that can be done.

Obviously the 2003 blackout was a wake-up call to everyone. August 2003 certainly accentuated the need to reinforce the system.

Futures are pointing up a little bit. I think we will see a typical August Friday: Low volume and no economic data. I think we will see some winding and grinding for most of the day.

Fundamentally, the economy has not slowed as investors had hoped or the Fed requires. It puts a tightening in August back on the table.

If I remember correctly, it was a day in late August and it was about 85 - 85 and sunny.

I bet deep down you still wish your mom would take you clothes shopping every August for the new school year.

I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.