Quotes About Opinion

If bad taste were a felony, every writer I know would've done prison time.

The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.

One time this guy on the street wanted me to give him a medical opinion, because I'm a doctor on TV. I'm also a real doctor. But I'm also Zack Braff, so I kicked him in the groin.

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write anything.

His [Donald Trump ]comments are shocking, offensive and disturbing but I don't believe it merits a ban at this point in time.

It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did.

If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.

(Andy Roddick's) a different kind of guy. I don't spend a lot of time with him. His coach in the past (Tarik Benhabiles), I didn't have a lot of time for at all. He was a bigger problem than Andy.

Nobody looks at opinion polls with more attention than politicians, but of course you've got to remember that a single poll is a snapshot in time.

Opinionum enim commenta delet dies; naturæ judicia confirmat. Time destroys the groundless conceits of men; it confirms decisions founded on reality.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.

I don't think the audience always listens to the critics. That's been proven time and time again.

I get called 'controversial' all the time.

The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time.

To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.