Quotes About Influence

Being an actress is similar to trying to fit in with the popular kids in high school. You're expected to drive the right car, wear the right clothes and say the right things.

Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a -- I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him -- I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

Fifty years on, we're still watching her movies and talking about her. That's not a dumb woman – trust me!

Damn you. WHY do you plant these things in my head?

It's not what the universe gives us that matters. It's what we give the universe.

SnowAngel: who's Bill Gates?

WE'RE the ones who make things happen. and when crappy things happen anyway, WE choose how to respond.

This was the first time since I'd started working there that I hadn't received a look of all-out disgust or, at the very least, a snarky comment, and all it had taken was a SWAT team of New York fashion editors, a collection of Parisian hair and makeup stylists, and a hefty selection of the world's finest and most expensive clothing.

Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history's illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities.

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Is television literally functioning as our conscience, tempting us and rewarding us at the same time?

Cartagena was to have the final say over all commercial aspects of the expedition;

Their height exaggerated movement; even in relatively calm water, they tossed the men about like toy figures.

enabled Cartagena to step in at any moment and prevent Magellan from enriching himself

that he, and not they, had the final say on the conduct of the entire voyage.

Two years later, in 1512, Solis, deftly manipulating the levers of influence, rehabilitated himself, and King Ferdinand

Fear was his most important means of motivating his men; they became more afraid of Magellan than the hazards of the sea.

and a considerable amount of his authority as Captain General

the House of Fugger, for which he worked, had enough money to finance ten expeditions, or more;

Magellan was right to insist on this point, although he was powerless to enforce it.

thanks to the legacy of Prince Henry the Navigator, algebra, geometry, astronomy, and navigation.

Dee contemplated extending the English sphere of influence across the globe.

Such were the men on whom an immature king from a foreign culture, speaking a foreign tongue

Serrão carefully cultivated Ternate's small ruling class, especially its king, and tried to promote trade between Ternate and Portugal