O. Henry People Quotations

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

We're talking about a great opportunity for the club. I think it's always a shame that people single me out and talk about other things but that's up to you.

Ulric is tough. He's a hard worker. A lot of people don't know just how good he is.

Many of them came from our traditionally strong sources of guests. If people used to live in Chicago and always wanted to take a dude ranch vacation, and now they live in Colorado, they're still going to want to take a dude ranch vacation.

More and more people are going without coverage or with less coverage, and that trend looks like it's going to continue.

No, I just thought I'd mention it to you people (the media).

No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles

I guess if the higher-ups know (what the plan for the city is), the people on the bottom don't know.

From a financial standpoint, it's meaningless. People can buy savings bonds now,

Right now, people are being rescued off roof tops. Houses have been swept away. There's more devastation than I can imagine. I don't know what is going to happen to New Orleans. Right now, athletics are not that important.

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

We hate surf schools. Basically, surf schools bring so many people to the lineup that it becomes hazardous.

This was pretty much about one person when I took over the program in '83. But it's not that way any more. We have so many people working so hard.

I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.

The whole program has turned a corner. If people didn't know us before, they know us now.

These signs reflect the great pride that we Oklahomans have for Carrie. Carrie is talented, graceful, charming, hardworking and a testament to what can happen when people follow their dreams.

People sometimes disagree. I don't think you can have healthy relationships without disagreements and an organization is not going to evolve beyond mediocrity without them. This is not the same organization that Theo left. There was enough discord then to give Theo legitimate reasons to move on.

People tend to lump the Yankees and the Red Sox together in spending.

Normally, I call the police station just about every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night to get people out of our parking lot.

This place is beautiful. These tournaments are kind of a new introduction for people to see it, and it's a little step toward what we're trying to do.

There's a saying that if you compete against the best it will only make you better, and I'm hoping that will come true. We want to be able to compete and put on a first-class meet, and we want people to come back to Albuquerque because we think this is pretty special.

Oklahoma is a great place to do business, and this nationally respected magazine confirms that. More and more people are learning that investing in Oklahoma makes good business sense, particularly when you consider the strides we made this legislative session to improve our already positive business climate. Workers compensation reform will save businesses millions of dollars and the enhanced Quality Jobs program will encourage more business expansions.

I just want to encourage people to come by and see this stuff.

I'd stay away from Ecstasy. This is a drug so strong it makes white people think they can dance.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

We can't buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.

The killing has got to stop. We lose a lot of young people on the street.