Quotes About Influence

For the sake of love, one could plunge into the molten metal: make steel with an admixture of myself and your image within me.

soy culto a pesar de mí mismo y ya no sé qué ideas son mías, surgidas propiamente de mí, y cuáles he adquirido leyendo...

You always hear about fashion's success stories. How a starlet lost an earring one night and by the next morning, the entire country was wearing one earring. Or how sweaters made a comeback in a drugstore, or a First Lady influenced how we dressed during her reign. But what about the losers? The fashions that came and went out the same day? The hopes and dreams of designers that were shattered by the sound of fifty million women ... laughing themselves to death.

I've never shot like that in my life. That's unholy." Uncle Cal claimed credit for teaching her to shoot, but while Margo had felt his guidance, she had felt just as strongly the guidance of the gun itself. It held her steady, and then sadness perfected her aim.

All the men added together made the solid world-- they were the marbles in the jar, and women were whatever sand or water or air claimed the space left between them. That's how I saw things as a young woman, that was my women's studies . Now I've come to know that women are like vodka poured over men, who melt away like ice cubes.

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

History, like God, is watching what we do.

People say songs are like your children, no they are like your parents. They tell you what to do, they tell you how to behave, they tell you how to misbehave, how to dress. Everything you do is directed by the songs.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

The most profound voice of any musician I have ever heard. Joe (Strummer) took his message to the world, and the world listened. He managed to influence more than one generation with his innovative and determined manner, and I am not alone in repeatedly turning to his thoughts and lyrics when searching for inspiration. The Clash was the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2.

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

I can't change the world but I can change the world in me.

If you're not at the table you're on the menu?

that we humans have little or no influence on the two most important moments of our life. Being born and dying. That felt like the right kind of fuck-you to the universe that a great punk rock song requires.

Guggi not only gave me the name Bono; he gave everyone in his family new and surreal names.

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and sing about their grief.

It was a line on our second album, October, that led from one record to the other. In 1981, a young man, I'd sung, "I can't change the world but I can change the world in me." Now, in my fifties, I found myself writing something different: "I can change the world, but I can't change the world in me.

I'm one in four, and a real rock 'n' roll band is not run by the singer. Led maybe, but not run.

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countance of his friend.

Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.