O. Henry Quotes

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

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• I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Movie
  • Dying
  • Talking

• Children have a great urge to learn about dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Great
  • Children
  • Learn

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• I tell them the rules are made by the government. Every firm should comply. It doesn't mean they can't compete.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Government
  • Mean
  • Rules

• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• As I see it, a green salad is an open invitation to carrots, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, and the sprouts that grow in jars on my kitchen counter.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Food
  • Green
  • Kitchen

• Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Africa

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I think poetry is a fabulous medium to encapsulate thoughts far more precisely than prose.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Think
  • Poetry
  • Thoughts

• The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Writing
  • America
  • History

• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Want
  • Years
  • Holiday

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Work
  • Help
  • Better

• Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Design

• People are realizing that color has no bearing on what's known as brotherhood.

  

  Omar Epps
  • People
  • Color
  • Brotherhood

• We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • May
  • American
  • Creative

• I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Pretty
  • Dream
  • Boy

• If you wanted to show a mirror to people that says, 'You've been drunk on money,' they're not going to want to see it. But if you reflected that mirror on another time they'd be willing to. People will need an explanation of where we are and where we've been, and 'The Great Gatsby' can provide that explanation.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Europe
  • Communism
  • Haunting

• Most of the food imported to Russia came from China.

  

  Alex Chiu
  • Food

• The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me.

  

  Brooke Langton

• Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

  

  Christopher Buckley
  • Age

• I don't have any fear of failure whatsoever. I used to, and I told myself I wouldn't allow myself to anymore.

  

  Jaylen Brown
  • Fear
  • Failure

• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  

  O. Henry
  • Small
  • New York
  • Greatness