Quotes About Influence

He was waiting to see what she would make of him, as they say. And then he would be what she made of him.

That's how the world is, touch anything, change everything. Caution is needed.

I'm a simple man who was brought up by a complicated man. So I have mannerisms and so on. Vocabulary. People can be misled.

It is true for everyone that the experience that society gives to us, or denies us, is profoundly formative.

I admire Calvin more than I do any of the Calvinists, Edwards included.

Indeed, unread books may govern the world, not well, since they so often are taken to justify our worst impulses and prejudices. The Holy Bible is a case in point

It's television that makes things seem important, whether they are or not.

La peur vient de vos parents et d'autres membres de votre entourage. Ce sont eux qui la construisent en vous. On est tellement innocent au début; on ne sait pas

This was an important trip for me. Twelve artists in all were there, including several I admired—Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Chris Burden, Brice Marden, Joan Jonas, and Pat Steir—and

Behind every book for young people and every global product of family entertainment, the hum of boardroom discussion about the politics of the work can be heard.

Stories were migrants, blow-ins, border-crossers, tunnellers from France and Italy and more distant territories where earlier and similar stories had been passed on in Arabic and Persian and Chinese and Sanskrit.

Pythagoras apparently wrote nothing, and yet his influence was so great that the more attentive of his followers formed a secretive society, or brotherhood, and were known as the Pythagoreans. Aristippus of Cyrene tells us in his Account of Natural Philosphers that Pythagoras derived his name from the fact that he was speaking (agoreuein) truth like the God at Delphi (tou Pythiou).

While Euclid himself may not have been the greatest mathematician who ever lived, he was certainly the greatest teacher of mathematics.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Power wears out those who do not have it.

One lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns ...

You let women dictate your actions and they are not competent in this world, though certainly they will be saints in heaven while we men burn in hell.

She was the only person in the world who could make him act against his own nature

If anything in this life is certain...if history has taught us anything, it's that you cn kill anyone.

what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.

None of us here want to see our children follow in our footsteps, it's too hard a life.

Nothing was more calming, more conducive to pure reason, than the atmosphere of money.

A lawyer with a briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.

for Justice, we must go to Don Corleone.