Quotes About Influence

I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.

President Barack Obama would do well to take a page or two from Clinton's playbook.

Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw on the page.

What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.

My work should speak, not being spotted on Page 3.

My family took me to church when I was like 4 years old, and I had to be in a pageant, and I was playing Jesus.

I met Charlie Trotter before I actually saw him in person; I was 24 when I first opened the pages of Charlie's cookbook 'Charlie Trotter's' and was greeted by a man I would know and admire for the next 20 years.

Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they've just kind of given up.

I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.

I could literally go on for pages upon pages about Mattis and how influential this man was to me and many others who fought alongside him.

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

I should be paid to go out. You see, I'm good for business. I class up a joint.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

Obama/Romney, Romney/Obama - the most important election of our lifetime? Fact is they're all the same - bought and paid for with the same money. Ours is a country of the SuperPAC, by the SuperPAC, and for the SuperPAC.

Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Shakespeare's words paint pictures in glorious colour in my language. They were written by a man whose use of words fits exactly into Xhosa.

An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.

I paint as if I were Rothschild.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

My family encouraged me to paint, but I was never allowed to go to the theater. Naturally, this made me interested in the theater.

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.