Famous Oregonian Quotes & Sayings

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery. — Charles Bukowski

You have to be really comfortable with yourself because people are going to tell you that you're eyes are too brown or you're this or you're that. And if you're not comfortable with yourself, you could get pretty freaked out. — Brie Larson

I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so. — Tom Ford

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated. — James Newman

There is no process of amalgamation by which opinions, wrong individually, can become right merely by their multitude. — John Ruskin

She wished that the werewolves had picked someone - anyone - other than Levi to represent the pack at their meeting while Abel was in mourning. Someone who was slightly less of an idiot. — S.M. Reine

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands. — Mark Twain

Many do not have the courage to face the truth of life and instead dwell upon some delusions to escape it. Any such escapism is a major hurdle in spiritual development. — Thomas Vazhakunnathu

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage. — Joe Perry

We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it. — Romeo LeBlanc

Something tells me you were never a Girl Scout. — Gwenda Bond

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing, — Claude Bernard

I think the disarmament of Iraq is inevitable. — Douglas Feith