A Quote by O. Henry

I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

O. Henry

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Benches Best Got Lamp Newspaper Park Park Benches Posts Some Stands

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O. Henry
American - Writer
September 11, 1862 - June 5, 1910

The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.

Charles Bukowski

There is no conflict between best in British class and being a global newspaper. We are an international newspaper rooted in the City of London, and I think people understand that. The 'FT' stands out as a global niche product.

Lionel Barber

Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating." "Park benches are irritating to you in some moods." "Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.

Nora Roberts

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Jeffrey Robinson

If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

George H. W. Bush

I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

Ken Livingstone

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

Saint John Chrysostom

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Matt Smith

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

Grant Shapps

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Romano Prodi

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

There are five dark matters and five lamps. Love of this world is darkness, and the fear of Allaah is its lamp. Sin is darkness, and its lamp is repentance. The grave is darkness, and its lamp is 'none has the right to be worshipped but Allaah, and Muhammad is the messenger of Allaah.' The hereafter is darkness, and its lamp is the good deed. The Siraat is darkness, and its lamp is certainty of faith.

Abu Bakr

I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.

Gary Jennings

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Honore de Balzac

The Peace Corps represents some, if not all, of the best virtues in this society. It stands for everything that America has ever stood for. It stands for everything we believe in and hope to achieve in the world.

Sargent Shriver

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