Quotes About Opinions

Learn us all the refinement and education that there's a better use for the mouth than running private opinions through it.

Siempre son los hombres que no sirven para nada los que te dicen cómo debes hacer las cosas. Son como esos profesores de Universidad que no tienen ni un par de calcetines propios y te dicen cómo puedes hacerte millonario en poco tiempo, o esas mujeres que nunca consiguieron atrapar marido y te dicen cómo se debe educar a los hijos.

Someone had already remarked that Bruckner had been Hitler's favorite composer, someone else, that there was something wrong with any young person who really enjoyed the late Beethoven; someone had already confided that the soap business in America amounted to seven million dollars a year, someone else that advertising amounted to seven billion.

Chief Justice Hughes once said that he tried to write his opinions clearly and logically, but if he needed the fifth vote of a colleague who insisted on putting in a paragraph that did not "belong," in it went, and he let the law reviews figure out what it meant.

LOLA Oh, no. She's probably going out with Turk tonight. DOC    She's too nice a girl to be going out with a guy like Turk. LOLA I don't know why, Daddy. Turk's nice.

We hardly know our own preferences in abstract matters; some of us are easily talked out of them, and end by following the fashion or taking up with the beliefs of the most impressive philosopher in our neighborhood, whoever he may be.

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Make the baskets as small as you can while retaining the wholeness of whole numbers. If 2/3rds or .67 or 67% of people didn't like the new flavor, then make them feel like people in a room. "2 out of 3 people thought cheesy marshmallow was "disgusting." Going up to 67 out of 100 would dilute understanding.

Sometimes we think we're gathering information when we're actually fishing for support.

As recounted in his book It's Your Ship, one of Captain Abrashoff's first moves was to interview every one of the 310 crew members on the ship. He learned their personal histories and their motivations for joining the navy, and he sought their opinions about the Benfold: What do you like most? Least? What would you change if you could?

What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

My father and I are very similar and have a wonderful relationship, but we both stand by our opinions.

Opinions on the Crown and the government in general tend to make digestion much more of a chore than it should be.

Everybody's so busy wanting to be down with the gang. "I'm conservative", "I'm liberal", "I'm conservative". Bullshit! Be a fucking person! Lis-ten! Let it swirl around your head. Then form your opinion. No normal, decent person is one thing, okay? I've got some shit I'm conservative about, I've got some shit I'm liberal about. Crime, I'm conservative. Prostitution, I'm liberal!

When they reached the door, she dug in her bag for the keys, finding the keyring after some searching, and holding it up triumphantly. "Women," Dells informed her, "need smaller bags." "Men need to keep their opinions to themselves," Harper replied.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

It has never been shown that "high self-esteem" is a good trait for students to possess. Meanwhile, researchers have uncovered a worrisome correlation between inflated self-esteem and juvenile delinquency. As Brad Bushman, an Iowa State University psychologist, explains, "If kids develop unrealistic opinions of themselves and those views are rejected by others, the kids are potentially dangerous.

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel -- and all of them are right.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Oh, everyone's got a view, haven't they? .. Everyone's got something to say," she'd tell me. ..

I am so tired of being told what a terrible place New York is to live in by people who don't live there

for whether we want to or not, we belong to our time and we share in its opinions, its feelings, even its delusions.