O. Henry Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
-
The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
-
Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
-
Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
-
Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
-
The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
-
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
-
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
-
You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
-
Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
-
My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
-
It takes people a while to trust you.
-
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
-
Anytime you have a Pat Riley running things, calling the shots, you are not going to question things because he has been through it. He knows what it is all about and what it takes to win. All we have to do on our end is play basketball because we know the right calls and the right decisions are going to be made up top.
-
I just have an inability to lie.
-
I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
-
One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
-
The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
-
'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'
-
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.
-
You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.
-
It's very hard to get to the top. It's hardest to stay at the top.
-
It is now clear that the controversial practices of companies that provide directories and an easy interface to libraries of unlicensed music are in fact detrimental to the growth of the music business and those artists whom they claim to support.
-
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.