Quotes About Influence

Words are so powerful. It can win wars, create kings, and sustain civilizations. - Wordwick Games by Kailin Gow

The most enjoyable part about being an Indie Author and an Amazon Author Success Story, is that my success inspires others.

She succeeds because she is loved and respected. - Kailin Gow, Amazon Lee and The Red Jade General Lady Liang of Song

Would that we loved the ancients more and copied them less! It has been said that the Greeks were great because they never drew from the antique.

Strangely enough humanity has so far met in the tea-cup. It is the only Asiatic ceremonial which commands universal esteem. The white man has scoffed at our religion and our morals, but has accepted the brown beverage without hesitation. The afternoon tea is now an important function in Western society.

I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.

If someone is about to go to hell, then Kundavai Devi possesses the power to send him to heaven instead. That's one kind of power. But do you know what Nandini would do? It wouldn't be amiss to say that her power is a shade stronger than Kundavai's. Nandini would convince you that hell is a much better place than the heaven and would have you jumping happily into hell. That's her power!

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up, but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.

In the Soviet Union you weren't allowed to speak out against the government. In the US you cannot speak out against sponsors.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

Don't you know how much I hero-worshiped you when I was a kid? You were Marie Curie crossed with Emily Bronte crossed with Joan of Arc to me when I was ten. And when i told you that, you said my cultural references were the sign of a colonized mind.

The next day it's Virginia Woolf who wafts through. Hers is a curiously insistent presence; take your eyes off her for a moment and the next thing you know she's rearranging your syntax as though it were cutlery improperly laid out for a seven-course meal with some foreign dignitary who disdains your nation's table manners.

Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question "What do these people have to do with us?" and "What are we doing out there in the world?

Why have the English remained so English?

Benazir was Prime Minister; she had taken the oath of office in a bright green shalwar with white dupatta, the colours of the Pakistan flag, and made the men around her look like pygmies.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

He also knew that there is no escape from power like his, no exit, no way out of the predicament that being always on creates; there is only death.

The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don't think that I would be one of the characters of today's modern Bible?

Jay is Kweli's favorite rapper, 50 is Eminem's favorite rapper, and I'm my favorite rapper.

History is written by the victors, they say, but it seems to me that history is written above all by those who weren't there, which may be the same thing.

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it's going to adversely affect the things over which you have control." His

Racists often take their cues on how to act from the way the government behaves. If the government is actively campaigning against racism, they hide their feelings and do nothing. If the government is indifferent to racism by not prosecuting it, then they feel it's okay to come out of hiding and attack.