Quotes About Opinion

Mick Jagger does it and, well, of course he does—he's Mick. Phil Collins does it and what an arsehole.

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

People are looking for someone to tell them what to do and whether what they're doing is good or bad.

errors and mistakes, however gross, in matters of opinion, if they are sincere, are to be pitied, but not punished nor laughed at. The blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied as the blindness of the eye; and there is neither jest nor guilt in a man's losing his way in either case. Charity bids us set him right if we can, by arguments and persuasions; but charity, at the same time, forbids, either to punish or ridicule his misfortune.

There is no such thing as a neutral or purely objective historian. Without an opinion a historian would be simply a ticking clock, and unreadable besides.

Farraj looked at me with the clinical distaste of a chiropodist regarding a septic toenail.

I came to the conclusion that an enormous amount of research was needed to form an opinion on anything, and therefore abandoned politics altogether as a topic of conversation.

books are a load of crap

After meeting John, my father took me aside and said, "The other one was better looking.

They are all men (always men) of strong conviction and profound trust in their own judgement.

But then, he calls many things mad that he does not care for. Perhaps that is easier than accepting them.

Of course, I'm referring to the original. With Gene Wilder. Not the lame re-make with Depp. I like Depp. Don't get me wrong. However, that rendition was totally spoiled by the single Umpa-Lumpa multiplied by however many in computer graphics. Awful.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.

I love to visit New York, but Los Angeles, to me, is a great city.

I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.

I didn't like Christchurch when I visited a long time ago. I had been camping on the outskirts of some gorgeous little towns throughout the South Island. But when I arrived in Christchurch, I just didn't like it nor find it to be very friendly.

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap.

I'm not a big believer in vitamins and all that stuff.

In my opinion the fans here in the United Kingdom are much more vocal and passionate than WWE fans in the United States.

Being more vocal - I think that's something, as a professional, you have to be really good at. You have to be able to speak your mind.

When I was younger, I was very vocal to the point of being strident in my views.

I was pretty vocal about being anti-Brexit before the referendum vote.