Opening Gambits Quotes

#1. All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls.

Peter Croft

#2. Investors should be cautiously positioned as the global economy and markets face major uncertainties. The downgrade will be a further headwind to growth and job creation in the U.S.

Mohamed El-Erian

#3. I take every possible side.

Tom Stoppard

#4. When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.

Nate Berkus

#5. The end goal of feminist revolution must be ... not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

Shulamith Firestone

#6. Any chance you might sit on my face?'
'Carnal Knowledge'
'That's the stuff.'
'No, I mean 'Carnal Knowledge, the movie. Jack Nicholson says that to Ann Margret when they first meet. She's a skater.'
'Well, is there?'
'Are you always this direct?

Linda Banana

#7. Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

Eric Gill

#8. Rather, we are who God says we are: his children. We are forgivable. We are changeable. We are capable. We are moldable. And we are bound by the limitless love of God.

Craig Groeschel

#9. That's impossible [ ... ] You need infinite energy for light travel. Haven't you heard of the theory of relativity?"
She thought she had him stumped with that one, but he just laughed again. "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Shannon Messenger

#10. Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

David Letterman

#11. There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.

Patricia Highsmith