"You'd think New York people was all wise; but no, they can't get a chance to learn. Every thing's too compressed. Even the hay-seeds are bailed hay-seeds. But what else can you expect from a town that's shut off for the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?"

-- O. Henry

#Wise Quotes #New York Quotes #Ocean Quotes

“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
“A diet should be named after what you do eat, not what you don't eat.”
“[Photography] is always like a state of grace, like the appearance of something that I hadn't foreseen, that surprises me and stops me. If I only did what I had in mind, there would be no emotion. It would be like keeping one's eyes shut rather than open, like theorizing rather than seeing.”
“One wonders how far spiritual and political leaders can genuinely lead us without some degree of mystical seeing and action.”
“If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.”
“Muslims (companions) misunderstood the speech of the Prophet on the day of Ghadeer.”
“Don't get in my personal life.”

Source : "Timberland wants an end to gossip about himself, Tiger Woods". www.mtv.com. January 5, 2010.
“If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it”

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