Opisummer Quotes & Sayings

I have no objection to the expression of political opinions in SF if they are an integral part of the story structure. I don't at all appreciate their intrusion for the purpose of converting a story into a political tract, because I consider that intellectually insulting. — Roger Zelazny

Life is too magnificent to complain. — Debasish Mridha

Digital educators Salman Khan and Shantanu Sinha contend the world is on the verge of another "printing press moment," which will break the elite's grip on the essentials of education, making available to millions of aspiring learners online knowledge and ideas once restricted to the lecture halls of Harvard or Stanford. — McKinsey & Company

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell. — Charles Spurgeon

Aristocracy is relative: there are all sorts of inexpensive little resorts where the son of a furniture salesman may be the arbiter of all things elegant, holding court like a young Prince of Wales. — Marcel Proust

Here's the thing: Nobody gets extradited for a crime where nobody's been hurt, where no property's been damaged. — Paul Watson

The true natural rights of men, then, are equal justice, security of labor and property, the amenities of civilized institutions, and the benefits of orderly society. — Russell Kirk

I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!' — Gabby Douglas

A decline in supervision is not the entire story. Even in the fifties there were undersupervised children ... who nevertheless did not become pregnant at thirteen ... and who did not smoke anything stronger than an occasional Camel or Lucky Strike ... It took a combination of unsupervised children and a permissive, highly charged sexual atmosphere and an influx of easily acquired drugs and the wherewithal to buy them to bring about precocious experimentation by young and younger children. This occurred in the mid-seventies. — Marie Winn

And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I'm still all man. I'm just a man with decoration, Tommy had explained before turning with a flounce and practically floating out of the room in his heels. — Vicktor Alexander

He'd call me false and faithless and I've always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they're the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning