Quotes About Influence

You can't unilaterally decide to work on it." "Marx'll back me." "I bet he will." "He'll back me because it could be a great game, Sam." "He'll back you because he takes your side in everything. Because he's screwing you.

Video games don't make people violent, but maybe they falsely give you the idea that you can be a hero.

I've decided we're going to be great friends, by the way. Don't bother trying to resist me. I'll stalk you until you submit.

Sadie laughed a bit to herself, thinking this was what it was like to play someone else's game: to have the illusion of choice, without actual choice.

The work was the thing that lasted, but the work only lasted if people knew it existed.

You don't want to meet someone like you too early in your life, or you won't ever like anyone else.

Sadie hadn't worked on a game of her own since she'd been with Dov, though she did occasionally help him with his. It was easier, in some ways, to work with and for Dov than it was to do her own work.

Old School by Tobias Wolff

I was overweight when I was her age, and my mother discussed it exhaustively. And yes, as a result, I would say I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn't? When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

designed to be the loudest

when she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II. Gently

But aren't we all actually fictions of each other?

When I read a book, I want you to be reading it at the same time. I

A. J. does not particularly care for writers . . . . He tries to avoid meeting the ones who've written books he loves for fear that they will ruin their books for him.

she'd asked him about the book that had had the greatest influence on his life, and he'd replied Principles of Accounting, Part II.

he had referred to blurbs as "the blood diamonds of publishing.

When you think about it, isn't a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

Maybe I could paint flats or print programs or something?" She wants to say How unlike you, but she resists. Aside from her husband, she believes her brother-in-law to be one of the most selfish and self-centered men she has ever met. If one afternoon with a baby can have such a refining influence on A.J., imagine what could happen to Daniel when the baby is born.

Love you, Maya says. Yes, she keeps saying that, AJ says. I wonder about giving love that hasn't yet been earned but honestly, I think it's the influence of that insidious Elmo. He loves everyone, ya know?

If your students are not your children, then you've no business touching harpstrings. There is a reason that our order is called Cruitreache, that the name takes the same plural suffix as mother. Think about it.

Manly he had been, yet womanly too, as though Brigit, the order's Patroness, had given him something of Herself through the music he played.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

When you love a man, you are in his power.

The modern Westerner, persuaded that he has a right to "think for himself" and imagining that he exercises this right, is unwilling to acknowledge that his every thought has been shaped by cultural and historical influences and that his opinions fit, like pieces of jigsaw puzzle, into a pattern which has nothing random about it.