Oregon State Sayings

#1. We've been tagged twice by that Bruce Mate guy from Oregon State. That guy's a menace. Probably has a satellite tag on his wife to track her trips to the can.

Christopher Moore

#2. I weighed the pros and cons of both, and college outweighed the pro ranks at the time and I'm definitely glad I made the choice to come to Oregon State because I'm a better player for it.

Jacoby Ellsbury

#3. My hands clench at my sides. I cannot adequately express how tickled I am to know that I wasted four years pursuing a business degree at Oregon State so I could scan and file papers while my incompetent twenty-four-year-old boss supervises.

Winter Renshaw

#4. It wasn't easy to learn about Gustave LeBon. For being the father of such an enduring theory, almost nothing has been written about him. Only one man has ever tried to piece his life story together - Bob Nye, a professor of European intellectual history at Oregon State University.

Jon Ronson

#5. In third grade, I had to an oral report on the state of Oregon. I brought up Big Foot sightings, and I remember there was an argument about whether or not Big Foot was valid history. Ever since then I've been thinking about how subjective history is.

Sufjan Stevens

#6. In court, pricey lawyers from the city try to answer the question: whose life is more endangered, the spotted owl's or the logger's? Victims of mutual incompatibility, both owl and logger are disappearing in Oregon, a state that once had enough standing timber to rebuild every house in America.

Timothy Egan

#7. I wish there were a healthier Republican Party in the state of Oregon.

Gordon Smith

#8. Mr Bush, Mr. Blair and now Mr Brown's sense of human rights precludes our people's right to their God-given resources, which in their view must be controlled by their kith and kin. I am termed dictator because I have rejected this supremacist view and frustrated the neo-colonialists.

Robert Mugabe

#9. In 1887, Oregon became the first state to make Labor Day an official holiday, with Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York quickly following suit.

Brendan I. Koerner

#10. Do I echo because I am hollow, or because I am a captive animal under stress and reassured by repetitions?

A. L. Kennedy

#11. Oregon is the only state in the union that facilitates suicide.

Maggie Gallagher

#12. Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.

Colm Toibin

#13. With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

Bindi Irwin

#14. Men wouldn't lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don't ask so many questions.

Aman Jassal

#15. God wants us to know we are saved, for saved people are dangerous people, willing to face off with the world, unafraid of the consequences since they know that, whatever happens, they will have eternal life.

Max Lucado

#16. The person with whom we are in love is to be recognised only by the intensity of the pain that we suffer.

Marcel Proust

#17. Don't be a fool, there is no such thing as just a girl.

Elissa Schappell

#18. When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#19. Beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#20. I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

Sarah Polley

#21. Oregon is an inspiration. Whether you come to it, or are born to it, you become entranced by our state's beauty, the opportunity she affords, and the independent spirit of her citizens.

Tom McCall

#22. What's useful about Oregon as a case study is that Oregon was bold enough to write it down," Imarisha told me. "But the same ideology, policies, and practices that shaped Oregon shaped every state in the Union, as well as this nation as a whole.

Anonymous

#23. In the "Personal Story" segment tonight, the state of Oregon is extremely liberal in its state government and judicial system.That state has lenient drug laws, including wide access to medical marijuana.

Bill O'Reilly

#24. We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

Ryan Stiles

#25. Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

Desmond Dekker

#26. Oregon is outflanking California as the most left wing state in the union.

Bill O'Reilly

#27. Today, in the newspapers and magazines, the first sentence is, my restaurant is expensive.

Masa Takayama

#28. Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

William Shatner

#29. We had a secret knowledge that demons couldn't fathom. They saw love as a weakness, but they were wrong. Love would keep us going, love was our strength.

Wendy Higgins