Quotes About Influence

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

Johnny Cash has only passed into the greater light. He will only become more important in this industry as time goes by.

For so long Versace couture was identified with celebrities and music, which I love. But at the same time it could overwhelm the clothes.

It took me five years on Lyndon Johnson, ten years on the Kennedys, six years on the Roosevelts. Inevitably, you get shaped by the people that you're thinking about during that period of time.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

I got caught shoplifting, which is not good. I was stealing for this boy that I went with at the time, and I ended up getting a three-month punishment.

Now is a time where social media allows people to be heard on a different level. Everyone is using their voice.

The all-time greatest Atlantic group - The Drifters

Martin Lawrence had no filter, and to me that was the greatest half hour of all time. Martin was ahead of his time.

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

A deed happens in a definite place at a definite time, but if it be sufficiently great and pregnant, its virtue radiates everywhere in time and space.

Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

If you're making a time capsule you have to throw my album in there.

On the plane was a Time magazine and there was a 30 page article on diabetes, and I read every page. By the time that plane landed, I had diabetes.

Politics is a waste of time.

I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

Because time isn't something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

I kind of took inspiration from my time in Paris. That was kind of the real time when I discovered European fashion. It's stuck with me since University.

Law is downstream from culture. By the time you make a law about something, you're reacting, not acting. I'd rather shape the culture.

Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.

I grew up around strong women; weak men were pickled and salted. The women wouldn't waste time raising a weak boy.

Even by the time I was four or five, I had Gene Autry records.