O. Henry Quotes

One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

O. Henry

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• One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Truth
  • Always
  • Try

• I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Long
  • Thought
  • Wrong

• I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Sad
  • Election
  • Capable

• We are cyborgs already. If you learn to read, it causes permanent changes to the structure of your brain for your entire life.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Brain
  • Changes

• Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Leader
  • Evidence
  • Conspiracy

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

  

  Larry David
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Version

• Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Write

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• I am so, so lucky. I am the luckiest girl in the world, really. And still with access to everything I could possibly want I still say 'Oh dear, what am I going to wear today?' There's no ending to that question!

  

  Salma Hayek
  • World
  • Today
  • Girl

• I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Money
  • Future

• I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Fact

• The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Political
  • Culture
  • City

• I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Say

• I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• I went into science, ending up with a Ph.D. in cell biology, but along the way I found out that experimental science involves many hours and days and nights of laboratory work, which is a lot like washing dishes, only a little more challenging. I was too impatient, and maybe a little too sloppy, for it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Science

• Before I got married, I dated the gamut.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Married
  • Before
  • Got

• I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Year
  • Shy
  • Liverpool

• My fans, country radio, friends, family, you name it - they know I love to perform.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Country
  • Family
  • Friends

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• I want to go to Lapland and see Father Christmas, and now I've got a child, so I've got an excuse. Also, I'd like to go to South America especially as I'm now living in that part of the world, in L.A. now. And I must get down to Mexico.

  

  Ashley Jensen
  • World
  • America
  • Father

• One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.

  

  O. Henry
  • Christmas