Quotes About Influence

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

Words have weight.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

What is writing? Writing is telepathy.

Money talks, bullshit walks.

How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's? If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one? Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. Touché. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story...

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Children learn much more by mute example than by spoken rules, or so it seems to me.

Magic would not work on Henry. He was too stupid.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

Words had a way of creating their own imperatives.

it's the stories of our childhood that make the deepest impressions and last the longest.

You're a firestarter honey...just one big Zippo lighter

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn't Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped.

No. I was going to say his work changed my life, but that's not right. I don't think a teenager has much of a life to change. I just turned eighteen last month. I guess what I mean is his work changed my heart.

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable.

If something got you to turn off T.V. , it's a total success