O. Henry Quotes

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

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• Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Fire
  • Safety
  • Year

• I figure the faster I pedal, the faster I can retire.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • I Can
  • Retire
  • Pedal

• That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

  

  Dan DeCarlo
  • Today
  • Problem
  • Creator

• I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Yourself
  • Creativity
  • Scary

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • Better
  • Famous

• My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • She
  • Kitchen
  • Grandma

• I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Style
  • Suits
  • Stick

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • House
  • Lost

• I really am into crystals. I'm a real positive thinker. I believe in creative visualisation.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Positive

• One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Questions

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Challenge

• Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• The point of serving your country is not to do your own thing or to go rogue, but to work as part of the process.

  

  Kal Penn
  • Work
  • Country
  • Process

• Dig beneath your feet, there you will find a spring. The place where you are now is crucial. Never try to avoid that which you must do.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Spring

• People succeed or fail on the merits in America, not on who they know or whose reelection campaign they supported. This absolutely American principle must be reestablished and permanently fortified. There can be no more “too big to fail.” If you are reckless, greedy, and arrogant, the American taxpayer should not bail you out.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • People
  • America
  • American taxpayer

• You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.

  

  O. Henry
  • Road
  • Eye
  • Fortune