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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. HENRY

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. HENRY

The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he trave...
O. HENRY

I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. HENRY

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn...
O. HENRY

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of peopl...
O. HENRY

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. HENRY

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. HENRY

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

I have been called 'The American De Maupassant.' Well, I never wrote a filthy word in my lif...
O. HENRY

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. HENRY

What else can you expect from a town that's shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New...
O. HENRY

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. HENRY

It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's w...
O. HENRY

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words wh...
O. HENRY

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. HENRY

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRY

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the soci...
O. HENRY

Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citiz...
O. HENRY

The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling ...
O. HENRY

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owne...
O. HENRY

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. HENRY

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRY

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. HENRY

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take...
O. HENRY

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of...
O. HENRY

No friendship is an accident.
O. HENRY

Take it from me - he's got the goods.
O. HENRY

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY

She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed-...
O. HENRY

He had the artistic metempsychosis which is half drunk when sober and looks down on airships when st...
O. HENRY

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of p...
O. HENRY

The Give and Take Athletic Association lived up to its name. The hall of the association in Orchard ...
O. HENRY

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. HENRY PORTER

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim owner...
O. HENRY PORTER

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. HENRY PORTER

It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.
O. HENRY PORTER

You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a ...
O. HENRY PORTER Because if I ever get nailed, I don’t want you running out to get the same medicine. Believe me, i...
HENRY V. O'NEIL I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. Y...
HENRY V. O'NEIL Never diagnosed the enemy before.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Follow the plan until it goes to shit, and then kill everything that isn’t human.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Well tonight we’re passing an amendment. I call it Jander’s Law.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Some of the things that beat the shit out of you . . . can beat the bullshit out of you too.
HENRY V. O'NEIL Therm-bombs! Drop ’em right on us! I been roasted before—it’s nothing!
HENRY V. O'NEIL He relaxed into the dirt, it was all right, he was infantry and the dirt was home. He felt warm liqu...
HENRY V. O'NEIL No food, you die in weeks. No water, you die in days.
HENRY V. O'NEIL You have to open up on stage.
KAREN O I was a complete outsider in high school.
KAREN O My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of k...
KAREN O Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
KAREN O Bands that I've loved over the years are the ones that have a certain myth around them.
KAREN O Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so ...
KAREN O I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
KAREN O I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.
KAREN O Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems fro...
KAREN O I was just totally taken by Michael Jackson when I was a little kid, like everyone else.
KAREN O Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when...
KAREN O I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and...
KAREN O I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint ...
KAREN O Sophomore records are historically really difficult.
KAREN O I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.
KAREN O For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
KAREN O I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of so...
KAREN O I'm not a quitter. I believe in following things through.
KAREN O

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O

I'm a proud vegan, whistle-blower, and animal rights activist.
STEVE-O

Rather than wait to be discovered, discover yourself. Whatever it is that you intend to do later, st...
STEVE-O

There's definitely some parallels between me and Joaquin Phoenix, I think. The line gets so blur...
STEVE-O

Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O

I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some poin...
STEVE-O

The psychiatric ward was a really creepy place and, hindsight being 20/20, the creepiest thing about...
STEVE-O

I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateb...
STEVE-O Christmas Isn't About Receiving, Its About Giving.
EZEKIEL O

When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched i...
STEVE-O

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.
STEVE-O Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675 It is not necessary to maintain a conversati...
O. HALLESBY

What brings you closer to God is being in service to others. I think any religion or spiritual way o...
STEVE-O

I have a rescue dog named Walter, and Walter and I are such fans of the 'Jersey Shore' that ...
STEVE-O

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of goo...
STEVE-O

I don't go around lecturing people and telling them they shouldn't eat meat. I just don'...
STEVE-O

My main focus in sobriety has been to replace fear with faith or love.
STEVE-O

I have been really enjoying making a project out of seeking out an extremely healthy diet of raw, or...
STEVE-O Live not in the depressive past, nor the anxious future, but NOW.
ANNA O

I think people will be surprised to find that I'm not as much of an idiot as they think I am. I&...
STEVE-O

I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have...
STEVE-O

When I was a kid, I loved a heavy metal band called Motley Crue. I was thirteen when they came to my...
STEVE-O Nowadays Love Is A I Want Not I Need
EZEKIEL O You can't taste victory until you've tasted defeat
EZEKIEL O Don't go fixing other people's problems until you know yours is fixed
EZEKIEL O Happiness Is What We All Want, Therefore Not All Of Us Can Get It Because We Quit Easily
EZEKIEL O Don't Mind The Mind
EZEKIEL O Be The Voice They Can Follow Out Of Darkness
EZEKIEL O I may not like sleep but it's always there when I need it
EZEKIEL O Don't Be Sorry When You Did Nothing
EZEKIEL O You can't keep a bird in a cage forever.
EZEKIEL O There's Violence in your slience
EZEKIEL O If you give up on life just know death hasn't given up on you, your best choice is to keep on going ...
EZEKIEL O can't ask for help if you didn't do the work can you now?
EZEKIEL O No team is easy to beat, They work just as hard
EZEKIEL O

When I first became recognizable from appearing on television, I abused my notoriety as much as I po...
STEVE-O

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a...
STEVE-O

I'm the perfect kind of personality for making YouTube videos. I deal in short attention span th...
STEVE-O

When I first became involved with PETA, it was on an 'issue-by-issue' basis - they interview...
STEVE-O

I have a tough stomach, and I've put myself through a lot. But when I first found out what happe...
STEVE-O

It's commonly said that if slaughterhouses had clear glass walls, nobody would eat meat. I think...
STEVE-O

I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm o...
STEVE-O

I keep my iPod on shuffle most of the time, but I'm most into Cirque du Soleil soundtracks.
STEVE-O

Initially, my decision to stop eating meat was motivated by fear of spiritual consequences, but righ...
STEVE-O

Being a vegan just helps me build up my self-esteem. I feel good about it every time I eat a meal.
STEVE-O

I don't care if people think I'm boring.
STEVE-O

Anybody that's not supportive of me staying sober obviously has to go. But on the other hand, th...
STEVE-O

I'm definitely a ham for the paparazzi.
STEVE-O

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's ...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. ...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

George Washington, with his right art upraised, sits his iron horse at the lower corner of Union Sq...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

"If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know wher...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

New York is the Caoutchouc City. . . . They have the furor rubberendi.
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolen...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

Far below and around lay the city like a ragged purple dream. The irregular houses were like the b...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskell...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iro...
O. HENRY (PSEUDONYM OF WILLIAM SYDNEY PORTER)

I'd like to get back to my family and friends - believe it or not, I do have some real friends.
O. J. SIMPSON

Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. SIMPSON

I had some problems with fidelity in my life but pretty much got along with everybody.
O. J. SIMPSON

I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in.
O. J. SIMPSON

I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
O. J. SIMPSON

I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
O. J. SIMPSON

I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad'...
O. J. SIMPSON

What do you mean you have my children at the police station? Why are my kids at the police station?
O. J. SIMPSON

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be some...
O. J. SIMPSON

I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
O. J. SIMPSON

Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
O. J. SIMPSON

I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
O. J. SIMPSON

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.
O. J. SIMPSON

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do...
O. J. SIMPSON

I think I've been a great citizen.
O. J. SIMPSON

My NFL pension can barely pay my son's tuition. You know, it's very little money.
O. J. SIMPSON

If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
O. J. SIMPSON

I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
O. J. SIMPSON

I've always thought I'd been pretty good with people, and I basically have spent a conflict-...
O. J. SIMPSON

Money takes wings. The only thing that endures is character.
O. J. SIMPSON

I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
O. J. SIMPSON

I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
O. J. SIMPSON

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSON

If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack ...
JOHN O. BRENNAN

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was jus...
E. O. WILSON

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority ...
E. O. WILSON

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr...
E. O. WILSON

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were...
E. O. WILSON

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and ...
E. O. WILSON

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contes...
E. O. WILSON

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WILSON

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mos...
E. O. WILSON

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. WILSON

There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. WILSON

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSON

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synth...
E. O. WILSON

The poor cows froze neglected in a blizzard They dug them up and ate their gizzards.
O ANNA NIEMUS

Mad Cows and Mad Pigs and Mad Fish say it is not 'you are what you eat' but that we become whom we e...
O ANNA NIEMUS

This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me.
DAVID O. SELZNICK

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS

Like the sun, truth is self luminescent. It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense. I...
O ANNA NIEMUS

The United States was founded by the violent overthrow of a violently founded throne.
O ANNA NIEMUS

Not might but light lit Maccabees' lamp through the night.
O ANNA NIEMUS

Because he has helped abuse lab animals in speaking normally or ex cathedra millions of Catholics de...
O ANNA NIEMUS

What's in Spam? nostrils brains?and eyes intestinal linings and uteri? anything swept from the slaug...
O ANNA NIEMUS

Kwon Yin from China Jesus from Israel Buddha from India Rumi from Afghanistan Martin Luther King...
O ANNA NIEMUS

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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