David Boren Quotes & Sayings

It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master. — Alphonsus Liguori

If people knew how many people, especially the very rich and powerful ones, went to psychics, their jaws would drop through the floor, — Carl Sagan

Any thing is interesting if you can communicate it. There are no unimportant subjects for the enlivened mind. — Kris Saknussemm

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. — John Legend

Junior, stop being orner." It's what Mama used to say to us when we were little, and I say it to Junior out of habit. Daddy used to say it sometimes, too, until he said it to Randall one day and Randall started giggling, and then Daddy figured out Randall was laughing because it sounded like 'horny'. About a year ago I figured out what it was supposed to be after coming across its parent on the vocabulary list for my English class with Miss Dedeaux: 'ornery'. It made me wonder if there were other words Mama mashed like that. They used to pop up in my head sometime when I was doing the stupidest things: 'tetrified' when I was sweeping the kitchen and Daddy came in dripping beer and kicking chairs. 'Belove' when Manny was curling pleasure from me with his fingers in mid-swim in the pit. 'Freegid' when I was laying in bed in November, curled to the wall like I was going to burrow into another cover or I was making room for a body to lay behind me to make me warm. — Jesmyn Ward

I feel sexiest when I can make you laugh. — Josh Duhamel

Why is it that when we had rotary phones, when we were having folks being crippled by polio, that we were teaching the same way then that we're doing right now? — Geoffrey Canada

The mining industry's contribution to the GDP varies between 2.25 and 2.5 per cent. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

You intoxicated me. It was just as though you were making me love you by some invisible force. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I miss my kids sometimes and that can get me down when I've been away working, but then I wake up and recognize how incredibly lucky I am. Spending time being down is less time out there achieving and enjoying. — Sean Combs

The Revolution is indeed living thorough the hard times of transition and sacrifice. The Cubans themselves have learned that socialism is built with clenched teeth and that revolution is no evening stroll. But afterall, if the future came on a platter, it would not be of this world. — Eduardo Galeano

I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well. — Warwick Davis

I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate. — Spike Jonze

It is also in the interests of the tyrant to make his subjects poor ... the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting. — Aristotle.

Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in this triad is Coolidge, for his work brought the element tungsten from laboratory obscurity to the central role of the industrial stage and gave the X-ray a central role in the progress of medicine throughout the world. — Chauncey Guy Suits