Portland Quotes - Page 3

• They haven't killed us yet," I say, and I imagine that one day I will fly a plane over Portland, over Rochester, over every fenced-in city in the whole country, and I will bomb and bomb and bomb, and watch all their buildings smoldering to dust, and all those people melting and bleeding into flame, and I will see how they like it. If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit. This is the way the world is made now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Country, Dust, Flames

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• Summer explodes into Portland. In early June the heat was there but not the color--the green were still pale and tentative, the morning had a biting coolness--but by the last week of school everything is Technicolor and splash, outrageous blue skies and purple thunderstorms and ink-black night skies and red flowers as brights as spots of blood.

  Lauren Oliver

  Summer, Morning, Flower

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• Fred is officially the mayor of Portland now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Mayors

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem (Delirium Trilogy 3)”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• it occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him--his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

  Lauren Oliver

  Grief, Past, Resistance

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• But hope got in, no matter how hard and fast I tried to stomp it out. Like these tiny fire ants we used to get in Portland. No matter how fast you liked them, there were always more, a steady stream of them, resistant, ever-multiplying. Maybe, the hope said. Maybe.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Matter, Tiny

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• The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan’s three-point explosion in Game 1 of the 1992 NBA Finals against Portland is easily one of the greatest performances I’ve ever seen. As he made his sixth straight, he winked directly at (broadcast partner) Mike (Fratello) and me and held his palms up in a shrug, as if to say, What can I do?

  Marv Albert

  Nba, Games, Chicago

  Marv Albert (1993). “I'd Love to But I Have a Game: 27 Years Without a Life”, Doubleday Books

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• To talk of comparing the Bible with other "sacred books" so called, such as the Koran...or the book of Mormon, is positively absurd. You might as well compare the sun with a rushlight, or Skiddaw with a molehill, or St. Paul's with an Irish hovel, or the Portland vase with a garden pot, or the Kohinoor diamond with a bit of glass. God seems to have allowed the existence of these pretended revelations, in order to prove the immeasurable superiority of His own Word.

  J. C. Ryle

  Bible, Book, Garden

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• Whether it's in in livability, transportation, or the environment, Portland is always leading the country. We have more to do before we achieve our goals, but we should all be encouraged by our progress and this recognition.

  Earl Blumenauer

  Country, Goal, Progress

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• Are we going to Portland?" I asked. "Or Multnomah Falls?" He smiled at me. "Go to sleep." I waited three seconds. "Are we there yet?" His smile widened, and the last of the usual tension melted from his face. For a smile like that, I'd...do anything.

  Patricia Briggs

  Fall, Sleep, Usual

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.35, Penguin

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• It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

  Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe

  Girl, Country, Morning

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• Once I was in a cafe in Portland and the woman at the next table and I began chatting and in the course of our conversation she strongly recommend I visit this web site called 'The Rumpus' so I could read this advice column called 'Dear Sugar.' It was so painful not to tell her that in fact I was Sugar, but I didn't.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Advice, Next, Facts

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• I dropped out of Reed College [Portland, Oregon] after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

  Steve Jobs

  College, Portland Oregon, Six Months

  Stanford commencement address, www.theguardian.com. June 2005.

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• I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

  Adam Rapp

  Girl, Dog, Years

  Adam Rapp (2010). “Punkzilla”, p.2, Candlewick Press

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• Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. Its like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but its almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.

  Laura Ramsey

  Running, Home, Kids

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was working at a restaurant, I booked the role in 'Twilight,' put in my two weeks' notice, got fitted, flew to Portland, filmed, and then it started getting hype. That helped me get my foot into certain doors before the movie even came out.

  Ashley Greene

  Twilight, Doors, Two

  Interview with Michael Sheen, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 13, 2010.

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