Opts Quotes

#1. TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Neil Postman

#2. A low-energy policy allows for a wide choice of life-styles and cultures. If, on the other hand, a society opts for high energy consumption, its social relations must be dictated by technocracy and will be equally degrading whether labeled capitalist or socialist.

Ivan Illich

#3. Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt, and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man - and I'm in all of them.

Joseph Cotten

#4. The neurotic opts out of life because he is having trouble maintaining his illusions about it, which proves nothing less than that life is possible only with illusions.

Ernest Becker

#5. Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. All that matters is whether one opts for Christ - not Christian opinions.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#7. Paco Montegrifo was the sort of man who decides, as soon as he's old enough to make such decisions, that black socks are strictly for chauffeurs and waiters and opts instead for socks of only the darkest navy blue.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#8. You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

Cassandra Clare

#9. I try to get to those peculiar and particular things that you never think of to say.

Carly Simon

#10. What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs.

Mitt Romney

#11. I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.

Tony Benn

#12. A long time ago, I made the commitment to dedicate at least one song per album to God. He has been very good to me, and never for one minute do I want Him to think I've forgotten, because I haven't.

MC Hammer

#13. Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. I don't know how you can move out of one's socioeconomic category if you don't have education.

Soledad O'Brien

#15. People think I like to expose my body. But I don't. It's just because the dance moves require it.

Shakira

#16. It's easy to kick somebody when they're down. George W. Bush has dealt with more difficult issues than any president since Franklin Roosevelt. And I've told my colleagues it's time that we go stand up for the president.

John Boehner

#17. Families are endlessly fascinating. We all have one, and they have a great impact on who we are and what we do - Freudian as that is.

Susan Minot

#18. Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.

Tom Van Vleck

#19. I'm not the prototype wide receiver. But I like to think I'm one hell of a football player.

Hines Ward

#20. Gotta love Walmart. Where else can you buy Fritos and bullets?

D.J. MacHale

#21. Everything is at its best when it's doing exactly what it was created for. A lamp gives light. An apple gives sustenance and refreshment. A chair is perfect in being exactly what it is
a chair.

Wendy Mass