O. Henry Quotes

Asian colleges would do well to use a broad range of criteria in selecting students and move beyond the unproductive "examination hell. "

The task of building a great university is never simple.

A man who thinks too much about his ancestors is like a potato-the best part of him is underground.

When the U.S. government stops wasting our resources by trying to maintain the price of gold, its price will sink to...$6 an ounce rather than the current $35 an ounce.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till its toasted--or stale.

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

There's very few people who want to just make beautiful films that make money when they can make films that make huge money.

I'm not a public enough persona to be big and loud at the front of the ship. I'd rather more quietly interact with the artisan animators.

Miyazaki's films in Japan are bigger than Titanic. He's an incredible rock star there. In the US, they don't do as well.

We are suffering from a glut of too many 3-D movies and not enough screens.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

It's nice to be taken seriously.

I'm supporting an up-and-coming director. It's the time in my life that I want to share what I know and pass it along.

There's definitely the desire out there for young people who want to make the movies.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Anyone can buy CG technology. It's not that it's easy to make those films. Those films are just as difficult, they're incredibly hard to make.

Having to make a blockbuster every time puts unhealthy pressure on creatives. The pressure on the filmmakers is so intense, I think it stifles the creativity.

A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

I think it indisputable that the distance between the intellectual faculties of different men is greater than that between the same faculties in some men and some other animals.

There is so much trouble in coming into the world, and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that it is hardly worth while to be here at all.

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

I have read somewhere or other, - in Dionysius of Halicarnassus, I think, - that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

Our best people don't go into politics.

The greatest danger we face is not any particular kind of thought. The greatest danger we face is absence of thought.

It is probably safe to say that over a long period of time, political morality has been as high as business morality.

What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.

I shall die as I have lived, rationalist, socialist, pacifist, and humanitarian.

When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

Love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble.

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.