Portlanders Pattern Quotes

#1. I like being what the girls call MOD-"my other Dad." What I've learned in the past year is that every kid is different. But as long as you love them and never forget that love, then you have the key. I think it's all about just being there and loving them because kids feel that every single day.

Ashton Kutcher

#2. I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

Analeigh Tipton

#3. Americans have a lower opinion of Congress than they do of the NFL replacement refs, head lice, traffic jams, cockroaches and even the group to which yours truly belongs - Washington political pundits.

Juan Williams

#4. For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts to welcome such glad-hearted visitants.

Herman Melville

#5. Although I was always a keen library user, buying books was a different order of bliss, because I would get to live with these ones.
(A Chat with Emma Donoghue)

Jen Campbell

#6. As a society, we can and should invest more money in education.

Daphne Koller

#7. I feel like Bush presidencies are like "Godfather" films. You should stop at two.

David Letterman

#8. It's funny how sometimes you don't see the obvious things coming. You think you know what life has in store for you. You think you're prepared. You think you can handle it. And then-boom, like a thunderclap-something comes at you out of nowhere and catches you off guard.

Cynthia Hand

#9. He was one of those inexplicable gifts of nature, an artist who leaps over boundaries, changes our nervous systems, creates a new language, transmits new kinds of joy to our startled senses and spirits.

Jack Kroll

#10. Why look to far ahead, when there was nothing to see but dark clouds?

Catherine Jinks

#11. I expected demands. he gifted me with tenderness. i expected ego. he let me experiment. i expected disrespect. he called me beautiful. i expected him to expect perfection. he taught me all i needed to know.

Ellen Hopkins

#12. Everything ends and it's always sad, but everything begins again, too. And that's always happy. Be happy. - Return of Doctor Mysterio

Steven Moffat

#13. Caenis surveyed the celebrating crowd with naked disgust. Vaelin couldn't hear the word he mouthed but the shape of his lips carried the meaning clearly enough: "Scum.

Anthony Ryan

#14. A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Will Durant

#15. Young, zombie, and famous, with money hanging out ma anus.

K. Bartholomew