O. Henry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I write in a small office at home.
-
I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
-
For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.
-
When I got on stage, I would have a rush of adrenaline; everybody gets it. Normally after the first night it becomes more controllable, and as long as I could ride the wave, I was still in charge.
-
If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.
-
I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
-
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
-
I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
-
If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
-
Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.
-
Education is so important.
-
I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
-
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
-
Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
-
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
-
One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.
-
I love meeting interesting people and doing things with them.
-
It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
-
We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.
-
Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.
-
There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.
-
The part of my brain that was responsible for creating the world I lived and moved in and for taking the raw data that came in through my senses and fashioning it into a meaningful universe: that part of my brain was down, and out. And yet despite all of this, I had been alive, and aware, truly aware, in a universe characterized above all by love, consciousness, and reality. There was, for me, simply no arguing this fact. I knew it so completely that I ached.
-
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
