Quotes About Opinion

Whenever he told the story, Rat had a tendency to stop now and then, interrupting the flow, inserting little clarifications or bits of analysis and personal opinion. It was a bad habit, Mitchell Sanders said, because all that matter is the raw material, the stuff itself, and you can't clutter it up with your own half-baked commentary. That just breaks the spell. It destroys the magic. What you have to do, Sanders said, is trust your own story. Get the hell out of the way and let it tell itself.

The great democratic danger is enslavement to public opinion

Girlfriends, indeed: the anti-video game.

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.

If you give people a firm opinion, you run the risk of being wrong. Guess what? People remember when you're wrong a lot more often than when you're right. So the tendency is to include all the possibilities. It's intellectually honest, even.

You can always find an expert to confirm your belief, no matter how ridiculous.

What about Clinton? I asked. He's pretty interesting. Ugh. Dad looked disgusted. That guy. He could stand out in the rain all day and not get wet.

There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger.

Hemingway and Norman Mailer might have disagreed, but there is no heavyweight champion of literature.

To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.

LADY CROOM: You have been reading too many novels by Mrs Radcliffe, that is my opinion. This is a garden for The Castle of Otranto or The Mysteries of Udolpho -- CHATER: The Castle of Otranto, my lady, is by Horace Walpole. NOAKES: (Thrilled) Mr Walpole the gardener?! LADY CROOM: Mr Chater, you are a welcome guest at Sidley Park but while you are one, The Castle of Otranto was written by whomsoever I say it was, otherwise what is the point of being a guest or having one?

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

The whole of life is like that now. It's even impossible to think naturally because opinion has been set out for you to read back. Originality has been used up. And yet faith in one's uniqueness dies hard.

He licked his lips. 'Well, if you want my opinion-' 'I don't, ' She said. 'I have my own.

They're pushing the envelope in terms of authenticity," the Camp Chase Gazette editor, Bill Holschuh, told me when I phoned for his opinion. "About the only thing left is live ammunition and Civil War diseases. I hope it doesn't come to that.

A closed circle of opinion or ideas into which discontent or opposition is never allowed—or allowed only within circumscribed and stylized limits—loses its capacity to respond energetically or imaginatively to new challenges.

of all the cities he had been to—Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake City—San Francisco was by far the worst.

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy.

No cook can ignore the opinion of a man who asks for three helpings. One is politeness, two is hunger, but three is a true and cherished compliment.

Nothing in this world is good or bad, but thinking makes it so. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

We live in an outrage culture.

You can't reason someone out of a notion that they didn't reason themselves into.

I have a political attitude, but I'm certainly not a politician.

Which earth will bear me and which sky will protect me if I say anything by my personal opinion in interpreting the Qur'?n.