Layron Long Corvallis Quotes & Sayings

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction. — Ibn Khaldun

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason. — Madame De Stael

You can purchase the mind of Pascal for a crown. Pleasures even cheaper are sold to those who give themselves up to them. It is only luxuries and objects of caprice that are rare and difficult to obtain; unfortunately they are the only things that touch the curiosity and taste of ordinary men. — Luc De Clapiers

He had discovered, as many others had before him, that only the first cussword is really hard; after that, there's nothing quite like them for relieving one's feelings. — Stephen King

And I will add this point of merely personal experience of humanity: when men have a real explanation they explain it, eagerly and copiously and in common speech, as Huxley freely gave it when he thought he had it. When they have no explanation to offer, they give short dignified replies, disdainful of the ignorance of the multitude. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Delicate humor is the crowning virtue of the saints. — Evelyn Underhill

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life. — Cheryl Strayed

I think the fact that Sir Alex Ferguson rested Howard Webb had a lot to do with the result. — Noel Gallagher

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me. — Rihanna