It's certainly not just a spot opinion; it's something that obviously has been building up for years. It is also very good for publicity, and it is the kind of recognition that maybe will help financially, also.
That is what leadership is all about: staking your ground ahead of where opinion is and convincing people, not simply following the popular opinion of the moment.
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope.
I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population.
Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.
We have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.
No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast.
During the early months of the war in 1914 there was a conflict of opinion between the War Office and the Foreign Office regarding news from the Front.
I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing.
I try to exist in a world where there is freedom of opinion, where you're allowed to make jokes. I don't want to live in some PC world where no-one's allowed to say anything.
Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.