Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium.

Reggie Bush

I don't have to down-talk Oklahoma. Everyone saw the way we played, saw the way Oklahoma played. It's really pretty self-explanatory.

N. Scott Momaday

I have deep roots in this Oklahoma soil. It makes me proud.

Alan Jackson

Oklahoma's always been good to me.

Edna Ferber

Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

Bobby Heenan

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

Blake Bailey

I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.

Brad Henry

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

Brad Henry

Resilience is woven deeply into the fabric of Oklahoma. Throw us an obstacle, and we grow stronger.

Tina Brown

Everywhere you look, there's a hunger to put the ethos by which Wall Street thrives on trial.

Charlie Munger

So, economics should emulate physics' basic ethos, but its search for precision in physics-like formulas is almost always wrong in economics.

bell hooks

Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

Adam Savage

We don't necessarily stand by our faults every time, but we will always stand by our methodologies and ethos.

Daphne Koller

Current ethos in Silicon Valley is that if you build a website that people keep coming back to and is changing the lives of millions, you can eventually make money.

Alison Bechdel

The satiric ethos of Mad was a much bigger childhood influence.

Darren Johnson

Fear stimulates us to take action and can be our friend, but if you act as though fear is not there-if you deny it-it will build and create barriers.

Jane Campion

To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision.

Greg Graffin

Science is very vibrant. There are always new observations to be found. And it's all in the interest in challenging the authority that came before you. That's consistent with the punk rock ethos that suggests that you should not take what people say at face value...

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes it's the little things that count most.

Charles Spurgeon

Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.

Dick Van Dyke

We had all week to rehearse. An audience would come in at the end of the week and we'd our little show. Most of the ad- libbing happened during the week on the show.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person.

Elbert Hubbard

What others say of me matters little; what I myself say and do matters much.

Edwina Currie

Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog.

Ed Parker

One becomes great when he comes to the realization that what he knows is very little.

Elinor Ostrom

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

Dixie Lee Ray

Everybody is exposed to radiation. A little bit more or a little bit less is of no consequence..