Quotes: Attidue. Audience. August.

NOTE: The statement in bold-face is a brief summary of the quote, or the quote stands by itself and needs no simplification. The number to the left is the page number.

Attitude
Attitude 351 One feels as if he is lying when he speaks to a policeman. "One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman." Charles-Louis Philippe. 1874-1909. Gross, ed. The Oxford Book of Aphorisms.

Attitude 111 He never walked the old path when he could explore the new. "But the father never liked to follow an old path while there was still unexplored land left around him." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth.

Attitude 376 " …she’s always had the heavy heart to fight against." Rölvaag, Giants in the Earth.

Audience
Audience 1211 He was always asking questions about the exact height of giants and the size of the fairies and now the weight of gold after Marygold had been turned into it. "Cousin Eustace, said Sweet Fern, a good little boy, who was always making particular inquiries about the precise height of giants and the littleness of fairies, how big was Marygold, and how much did she weigh, after she was turned to gold?" Hawthorne’s The Wonder Book for Boys and Girls

Audience 1235 He reminded the father that he was talking to children, not to adults. Eustace Bright to Mr. Pringle: "…be kind enough to remember that I am addressing myself to the imagination and sympathies of the children, not to your own." “Tanglewood Fireside. Introductory to 'The Three golden Apples' ” Hawthorne’s The Wonder Book for Boys and Girls

August
August 210 Characteristics of the month of August. "August comes with hot days, warm nights, a brassy sun, and something in the air, perhaps the season itself, that begins to rust the high-hung leaves of the elms." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 210 Languid summer. "The night still twinkles with fireflies but the day’s heat lingers and the air has a dusty August scent, the smell of languid summer." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 212 Serenity. August. "…a kind of sweet serenity now possesses the land." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 212 Cattails. August. "Cattails lift green bayonetted ranks from the mucky margins." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 212 Dragonflies and swallows. "August. Dragonflies in the hot afternoon, swallows in the cool of evening, seine the air for mosquitoes." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 212 Cicadas, the drowsy sound of August. August. "The heat of midday throbs with the cicada’s shrill drone, one of the drowsiest of all summer sounds." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 213 "[Goldenrod]. …a visual tonic for the jaded eyes of August." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 214 "August makes its own season." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 217 Crickets and katydids. August. "Crickets now are fiddling in the long, hot afternoons, katydids will soon be scratching at the night." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 218 "There is a mellowness about a moonlit night in August…." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 224 The lake in August. August. "Dawn and [the lake] is gauzed with mist; sunrise begins to lift the mist and the water dances and glitters as the morning breeze begins to clear the air; noon and it is lazy as the damselflies along its shore…sunset fades, but dusk lingers, shimmmery with reflected light; then darkness, starlight again, moonlight, and the slow lap of water at the moored boats." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 226 "Late August nights are always insect-loud." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 226 The frenzy of insects on an August night. "Now all these fiddlers [insects] are out and making the darkness echo as though driven by a special frenzy." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year

August 232 The crow caws in August. August. "Not another bird makes a sound until a crow caws in the distance." Borland, Twelve Moons of the Year