Portlanders News Quotes & Sayings

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it. — Richard Lamm

His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent. — Winston Churchill

The true voyagers are those who go for the sake of traveling ... and without quite knowing why, they say, 'Let us depart!'. — Charles Baudelaire

Mistakes are doorways to discovery. — Sam Horn

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. — Pinetop Perkins

He saw the human shadows flitting through his second world. Most of them had unkempt beards. Some walked along looking at the sky, others at the ground. All wore shabby clothing. All lived in poverty. And all were serene. Closed in on every side by streetcars, they freely breathed the air of peace. The men in this world were unfortunate, for they knew nothing of the real world. But they were fortunate as well, for they had fled the Burning House of worldly suffering. Professor Hirota was in this second world. So, too, was Nonomiya. Sanshiro stood where he could understand the air of this world more or less. He could leave it whenever he wished. But to do so, to relinquish a taste he had finally begun to savor, was something he was loath to do. — Soseki Natsume

The waves of probabilities collapse into a physical reality through observation by a conscious mind. — Ilchi Lee

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising. — Sebastian Barry

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields. — Ovid

My advice to the 10 year old daughter is: fashion happens in a context. It's societal, it's cultural, it's historic, it's economic, and it's political. So all of her studies, everything that is happening in the world, all needs to be channeled through her in order to be a good designer. — Tim Gunn

Change is a natural form of progression. — Trey Songz

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure. — Bob Shacochis

People who don't have goals work for people who do. — Jack Canfield

Jerry Coleman was the kind of player who made me proud to wear the pinstripes. — Joe Torre