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Opinion Quotes


"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."


"You can say anything to David Icke and he will accept it and put it into his ideology."


"Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion."


"Even though shows like NYPD Blue are soaps in my opinion, but they're individualized to an extent that you can still follow what's going on if you miss a week."


"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."


"Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality."


"It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion."


"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."


"I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary."


"I have before me a newspaper slip on which a writer expresses the opinion that no one should be allowed to possess more than one million dollars' worth of property."


"You're in a profession in which absolutely everybody is telling you their opinion, which is different. That's one of the reasons George Lucas never directed again."


"You can be young and still have views and opinions."


"Mrs. White, in my opinion, made false statements. She misused what she claimed was the prophetic gift she had."



"Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion."


"And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio."


"No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion."


"In my opinion, we've elected a Marxist [Barack Obama] to be president of the United States."


"There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions."



"As long one is not able to let go of the insistence on a certain opinion [faith, sect], he has not earned the right for Moksha [Ultimate Liberation]. He is not worthy of Moksha if he is in the sect. He is only worthy of material happiness; he is worthy of a celestial life."


"Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie."


"If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not."


"My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker."


"Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality."


"I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept."


"In my opinion, Jackie is the greatest female athlete ever."


"Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself."



"I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me."


"My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out."


"You're allowed to rip-off another score so close that it's ridiculous. In my opinion it's ridiculous, how closely one can just rip-off a score that happened a year or two earlier."


"I think he intends to run for president... I think Senator McCain cares about the opinions of New Hampshire voters."


"In my opinion I do not think I am a better guitarist than Ace, I honestly think we're both different, and we both brought something unique to the musical."


"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."


"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."


"I am basically a complainer and all the grounds for complaint have been swept out from under me."


"The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics."
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