Quotes About Influence

Does every young woman, she wondered, discover herself through the eyes of the men who love her?

Books will always have the last word, even if nobody is around to read them.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too.

We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century, Oliver said. Who isn't?

When you read these words on a page, what happens to them, when they become you?

the newly empowered advertising industry used its forked tongue to convert citizens into consumers. But

Ze truth about stories is that is all we are.' A famous Cherokee writer named Thomas King once said this. We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too.

That's the thing about Jiko, one of her superpowers, is that just by being in the same room with you, she can make you feel okay about yourself.

some Haitian gangster-cum-political bigwig. He had seen such characters

It was a face that instantly robbed those who gazed upon it of a good thirty percent of the energy they needed to go on living.

Advertising departments, as you know, are crawling with people whose frontal lobes are so underdeveloped that if you flatter them a bit they'll swear shit is platinum.

The instant you put something like that into words, it was gone. Words and combinations of words - the more you relied on them, the less power you actually had.

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but it's not true. The cover is all you get. But it is true that appearances can be deceptive, surely. Only if you let yourself be influenced by what other people think. If you trust your own feelings, you can judge anybody by the way they look and never go wrong.

He's got five rings in his ear, eighteen gauge to ten gauge, but when I told him to get one in his nipple to match mine, and to get a Sailor Moon tattoo - because I like Sailor Moon? - or if not that, a skull, he stopped calling me.

Y de nada serviría intentar analizar cómo lo había logrado. Desde el momento que pones algo así en palabras, lo pierdes. Las palabras y las combinaciones de palabras: cuanto más dependieras de ellas, menor era tu poder real.

His Highness worked on the assumption that even the most loyal press should not be given in abundance, because that might create a habit of reading, and from there it is only a single step to the habit of thinking, and it is well known what inconveniences, vexations, troubles, and worries thinking causes.

Time appears as a result of our actions, and vanishes when we neglect or ignore it. It is something that springs into life under our influence, but falls into a state of hibernation, even nonexistence, if we do not direct our energy toward it. It is subservient, passive essence, and most importantly, one dependent on man. The absolute opposite of time as it is understood in the European worldview.

Czas pojawia siÄ™ w wyniku naszego dziaÅ'ania, a znika, kiedy go zaniechamy albo w ogóle nie podejmiemy. Jest to materia, która pod naszym wpÅ'ywem mo?e zawsze o?y?, ale popadnie w stan hibernacji i nawet niebytu, je?eli nie udzielimy jej naszej energii. Czas jest istnoÅ›ciÄ… biernÄ…, pasywnÄ… i przede wszystkim – zale?nÄ… od czÅ'owieka.

Muchas veces, pocas palabras fueron suficientes para hacer o deshacer la fortuna de un hombre

No, not one shall be forgotten who was great in the world. But each was great in his own way, and each in proportion to the greatness of that which he loved.

I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion.

Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.