Opake Quotes

#1. I hate set dissertations,
and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

Laurence Sterne

#2. Yes, we were amazed when that happened. It was a real joke to us. Konrad Lueg and I did a Happening, and we used the phrase just for the Happening, to have a catchy name for it; and then it immediately got taken up and brought into use. There's no defence against that - and really it's no bad thing.

Gerhard Richter

#3. I want to make it clear as Premier and as local member that I strongly support the Renewable Energy Target. Our message to the Federal Government and to Canberra is stick to the Renewable Energy Target.

Denis Napthine

#4. To teach better, be an example. People learn from those that do and not just talk.

Debasish Mridha

#5. I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. I think it was right to remove Saddam Hussein. I think it was the right decision then and I still think it was right now.

David Cameron

#7. I had teen angst for a while, but I think every teenager has the angst.

Jamie Bell

#8. Firepaw was sure now. It was a ShadowClan warrior, and it was staring straight at him.

Erin Hunter

#9. Most man can think no better than a child! This fact perfectly explains why there are so many funny beliefs!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. Please don't confuse love and logic ... They aren't even remotely related.

Shannon Lee

#11. What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's ... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.

Diane Arbus

#12. Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

Mary McCarthy