Blackmun Opinion Quotes & Sayings

Past beings interact with present ones because life and death are a continuum and expiration entails no loss of vital essence. — Michael E. Moseley

I like everything a certain way. I'm not somebody who can just lay back and let it happen ... And I think that's what's gotten me to where I am in life. — Kris Jenner

I guess some people lived like Reader's Digest, but I hadn't met any and at that time it seemed doubtful that I ever would — Richard Brautigan

It's a funny thing with the inspiration thing. There's always loads of music around that I absolutely love and films going back to when I started making film music in the mid-80's. — Steven Price

Justice Harry Blackmun's majority opinion in Roe v. Wade was all about privacy, but the most private parts of a woman's body and the most private decisions she will ever make have never been more public. Everyone gets to weigh in. Even, according to the five conservative Catholic men on the Supreme Court, her employer. — Katha Pollitt

We were all living according to those random arrangements, and none of us fully controlled the terms. — Devin Murphy

I did not have to believe. I only had to wonder. — Patricia Monaghan

She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. That way they were even. Now he knew he had all the power. — Sarah Addison Allen

My father was a motor mechanic, and my mother a homemaker. We moved to Bath when I was four, and so I consider myself a Bathonian. — Richard J. Roberts

He doesn't jingle my chimes. — Peggy Webb

Women worry about the things that men forget; Men worry about the things that women remember. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

It is very difficult to follow your own method all the time because you may crash against some directors who want from you something different. Trying to understand the material, who you're working with, and how can you fit in there. That is my approach. — Antonio Banderas

When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school. — Mary J. Blige

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity. — Glenn Howerton

Writing does what physicists cannot: it freezes time; captures the essence of the moment, even as it passes away. Writing says, we were here; that we breathed and felt and saw and made mistakes and learned from them. — L. E. Henderson

Forgiveness is the nature of my art in general. It's expressing love and compassion, the kinds of things that don't make sense in any other context other than emotive expression. — Raymond Pettibon