O Henry Gift Of The Magi Quotes

#1. [ ... ] there exists something beyond what we have in front of us. Something equally real, but that a camera cannot perceive. So I have to learn that sometimes it is necessary to give oneself up to the mystery. And accept that it is not granted to us to understand everything.

Donato Carrisi

#2. Poems like to have a destination for their flight. They are homing pigeons.

May Sarton

#3. Each of us needs something - food, liquor, pot, whatever - to help us survive. Dracula needs blood.

Frank Langella

#4. And so Rebecca consigned herself to, not ignorance, but a judicious incuriosity: she decided, for the time being, to live with the constant, cryptic reminders that the scope of another person's soul could never be fully surveyed.

Dexter Palmer

#5. Now all of us can talk to the NSA
just by dialing any number.

David Letterman

#6. I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might become.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.

Steve Martin

#8. I stared at them. 'Every time what?' I said, as Nathan put the money into Will's hand.
'He said you'd be reading a book. I said you'd be watching telly. He always wins.'
My sandwich stilled at my lips. 'Always?
You've been betting on how boring my life is?

Jojo Moyes

#9. Maybe the hairs on my head were numbered" she went on with a sudden serious sweetness "but nobody could ever count my love for you".

O. Henry

#10. Film schools are now nearly 50-50 male-female, and women are also well represented at festivals and in indie film. But what happens to them after they direct their first film or short? Where do they go? They certainly aren't being given the same opportunities as their male counterparts.

Lesli Linka Glatter

#11. I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.

Abbey Clancy

#12. There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.

O. Henry

#13. Be sure it's your real self you're showing. Because it is your real self that needs to be loved.

Daphne Rose Kingma