Opined Def Quotes & Sayings

At the end of the street was a large glass box with a female mannequin inside it, dressed as a gypsy fortune teller.
"Now," said Wednesday, "at the start of any quest or enterprise it behooves us to consult the Norns."
He dropped a coin into the slot. With jagged, mechanical motions, the gypsy lifted her arm and lowered it once more. A slip of paper chunked out of the slot.
Wednesday took it, read it, grunted, folded it up and put it in his pocket.
"Aren't you going to show it to me? I'll show you mine," said Shadow.
"A man's fortune is his own affair," said Wednesday, stiffly. "I would not ask to see yours."
Shadow put his own coin into the slot. He took his slip of paper. He read it.
EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING.
YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE.
YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD.
Motto:
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
Shadow made a face. He folded the fortune up and put it inside his pocket. — Neil Gaiman

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts. — Ron Fournier

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick. — Ralph Hall

The Bungalow 4 counselor was a twenty-year-old college student named Eric who had terrible acne and wrote poems about the local girls who worked in the kitchen and how their breasts looked lonely but also beautiful, like melted ice cream. — Kelly Link

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. — William Shakespeare

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. — Richard Cecil

Our societies probably work best if they mimic as closely as possible the small-scale communities of our ancestors. We certainly did not evolve to live in cities with millions of people where we bump into strangers everyone we go, are threatened by them in dark streets, sit next to them in the bus, and give them the finger in traffic jams. — Frans De Waal

The artist's business is to feel, although he may think a little sometimes ... when he has nothing better to do. — John Ruskin

Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. — Suzy Kassem

Even a rat will choose the least painful route if you shock him enough — Haruki Murakami

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas . — Eric Hoffer

But I'd learned a long time ago that the worse things are, the more people lie about them. — Ripley Patton

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing ... and I just never really stopped. — Lily James

I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding. I went crazy over the outdoor work, and at last had to confine myself to the house, or literature must have gone by the board. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I had always been so much taken with the way all English people I knew always were going to see their lawyer. Even if they have no income and do not earn anything they always have a lawyer. — Gertrude Stein