Quotes About Influence

Los ancianos tenemos la sabiduría , los adultos la seguridad , los niños la ilusión pero solo los jovenes tienen el poder de cambiasr el mundo. Gaernon

El que compta són els lligams; el que fa cambiar les coses són els lligams. Al final, els lligams són l'únic que queda.

Il futuro è come un fiume, così largo e imponente che non si può cambiare né invertirne il corso. Tuttavia, è formato da una miriade di piccoli affluenti che invece è possibile deviare. Puoi cambiare il tuo futuro, perché molte tue azioni dipendono soltanto da te.

Detesto esa sensación de perder el control. Cuando hago algo, me gusta hacerlo porque quiero, porque lo he decidido yo; no a causa de una influencia externa.

So long, Charley."24 He had coined a phrase that jockeys would use for decades.

Not the bureaucrat's stamp on the folder of our fate. But a knot nonetheless, and not of our making.

C]apitalism--democracy's sidekick

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

My books are mine, and yet they are alien to me--as a child belongs to a parent and yet has a life of its own. I can guide and hope and nudge my characters this and that way, but in the end, they become what they become. I don't always like what they become myself, but like a parent, there are times when I just don't know what to do about it. Other times when I'm so proud of them I could bust.

I always let you decide. If you decide wrong, I work to change your mind.

Read The Ghost Writer and American Pastoral, then get back to me. What about your father?

Of course, as the book makes clear, it also owes much to Rear Window and The Daughter of Time, not to mention an article I wrote in 1998, about

Where are you getting your material—Portnoy's Complaint?" "What does an Irish lass named Monaghan know from Portnoy and afikomens? I imagine you reading James Joyce and drinking

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with...

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Power is a tricky thing, mija. It can lift you up high on its wings and up into the sky where you feel invincible. But sometimes you forget the bigger thing that makes you fly. Without God, without love, you fall. You stop being grateful and humble, and you fall." pg. 230

Así pasa con la letra escrita: aunque nadie la lea, basta con que esté ahí para que gravite como ley de bendición o condena.

According to my mother, no book is only a book. A book can improve your mind or it can break it.

Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us to do our very best. I'm thankful to them for allowing me to do what I wanted to do.

Well-behaved women rarely make history.

Well behaved women seldom make history.

Les femmes bien élevées entrent rarement dans l'histoire

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.