Oregonian Quotes

#1. As a lifelong Oregonian, I prefer our forests green, not black.

Greg Walden

#2. The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

Steve Novick

#3. Climate alarmists insist that the apparently missing heat (from CO2 warming)is hiding in the deep ocean -- which is like telling a child Santa Claus lives at the North Pole, as deep ocean heat can't be measured.
-- Ralph B. Alexander, Letter to The Oregonian, January 28, 2013

Ralph B. Alexander

#4. It's not reasonable for companies that have chief executives and board members who are paid very considerable sums to subsidise low pay through in-work benefits.

Boris Johnson

#5. Only a Scotsman can really survive a Scottish education.

Prince Philip

#6. It's true that I said there are miracles that only happen if you keep fighting. But Yukiteru... There's another thing you need to know about miracles. Most of them aren't all they're cracked up to be.

Sakae Esuno

#7. I watched all the Academy screeners and I wanted to slit my wrists. Whether they are good or not good, I don't know why you make Foxcatcher? I don't know why you do it. What is it giving anybody except to have Steve Carell put on a rubber nose?

Rob Cohen

#8. It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.

Samuel Beckett

#9. My message is that I want to reach the people - the people who work each and every day.

Janelle Monae

#10. You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.

George Horace Lorimer

#11. Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Bruce Lipton

#12. She had become a distant but indelible memory. Until three days ago.

R.D. Gupta

#13. It (scent) was barely there at all, but in the hint of its existence it was as fragile as night blossoms - not too sweet but just enough, like the dew on a requiem bud in the palest hour of dawn.

Laini Taylor

#14. When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#15. Even though my first marriage broke up, I'd say that I've had two good marriages and two good men. I've been very lucky. I like to think it's karma because, in a relationship, I give 300 per cent. I'm straight with my men, and I like to think it comes back.

Suzi Quatro