Opikan Quotes & Sayings

What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven! — Sarah Josepha Hale

Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a AAA country. — Barack Obama

Was living in New York at the time of the 9/11 attacks. And I remember, you know, in those weeks that followed, when none of us spoke about anything else really, a number of friends of mine, people I knew, including very experienced journalists, I heard them saying things like, well, now we understand what happened to you. — Salman Rushdie

The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to share it with the reader, not to cover up the truth but to deliver it obliquely. — Paul Theroux

Somebody should have taken him to a stationary store and pointed out the difference between an envelope and a whore. — Richard Brautigan

We would be false to our trust if we allowed the time it takes to give effect to constitutional rights to be used as the very reason for taking away those rights. — Frank Murphy