Gail didn’t want me commenting on the opinion pages. I was hired by the news department and, despite the rabid assertions of the Times’ enemies and detractors, the two really have nothing to do with each other. – Daniel Okrent
People have an opinion of Africa and it is not so good, but we have to let sport unite us all. – Didier Drogba
As a parent, you must give your opinion. And if that causes a breach, then it causes a breach. – Debbie Reynolds
Islamophobia, in all its guises, seeks to minimise the importance of the individual and maximise the importance of the group. Yet our instinctive stance ought to be one of suspicion towards such endeavours. For individuals are undeniably real. Groups, on the other hand, are assertions of opinion. – Mohsin Hamid
I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn’t be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing. – Geoff Dyer
No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion. – Carrie Chapman Catt
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. – Miep Gies
Before ‘Local Hero,’ I’d been knocking about Glasgow in rock bands, drinking too much and generally being 21. My opinion of actors was that they were straight and boring, so you see, I was completely unprepared for being one. – Peter Capaldi
Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him. – F. Lee Bailey
Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers. – Gautam Gambhir
If you’re an English actor and turn up in America, they don’t have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything. – Eddie Redmayne
To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody! – Frances Burney
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting. – Epictetus
I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we’re in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction. – David Eddings
As a player, that’s not your responsibility to comment and to give your opinion on another player. As a quarterback, I don’t want another quarterback tweeting about my performance or judging me in that way. – Eli Manning
The incurably suspicious Arthur Lee, youngest brother of Richard Henry, was of opinion that what others termed ‘errors’ in the Constitution were a deliberate scheme to create an oligarchy. – Douglas Southall Freeman
We saw that our customers required help beyond the data sets they had and that they could benefit from a wider opinion. So we built SurveyMonkey Audience, and we’ve now got 4 million users who signed up to take surveys. Our clients can choose the demographic they want to hear from, and we can provide that sample. – Dave Goldberg
The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. – Edith Sitwell
People see that I have my own voice, my own opinion, my own likes. The album really reflects that. – Deborah Cox
I stopped making movies because I don’t like taking my clothes off. Maybe it’s realism, but in my opinion, it’s utter filth. – Debbie Reynolds
I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don’t have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: ‘They’ll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I’ll never come back.’ – Mike Schmidt
In the old days… it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn’t have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn’t use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes. – David Attenborough