Quotes About Influence

Some men, by dint of excessive egotism, manage to persuade their contemporaries that they are very great men indeed: they publish their acquirements so loudly in people's ears, and keep up their own praises so incessantly, that the world's applause is actually taken by storm.

They are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them.

You can convince anyone of anything if you just push it at them 100% of the time. They may not believe it completely, but they will still use it to form opinions, especially if they have nothing else to draw on.

These children that come at you with knives--they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.

Dennis Wilson was killed by my shadow because he took my music and changed the words from my soul.

A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings.

If that summer taught me anything, it was this: girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. Last

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Su lazda ar akmeniu galima sulaužyti kaulus, bet jei nori k? nors ?skaudinti...labai smarkiai, rinkis žodžius.

If you're having trouble making a distinction between the voices in your head, let me put it this way: there are two sources of supernatural power on this earth. Jesus and satan. If what you're hearing does not come from Jesus, then by definition, it does come from satan.

girls need their father. Period. And I couldn't really tell you why other than it's the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they're just floating in the earth like that tooth. Buried in some trash mound. Waiting to be discovered by somebody with a shovel who won't crack it or crush it. [Murphy Shepherd]

Music reaches people at a level that is beneath their DNA. Dad was right. Again. Music exposes what and who we worship.

A lot of dead writers feed my mind with their ever-present whisperings. I

I'm not leaving something for you. I'm leaving something in you." I didn't like the way that sounded.

Proving once again that writing is an amazing transaction, and that the most powerful thing ever is a word.

Said Dad was a tent peg for a lot of people, but she was his.

immeasurable power of our words.

Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are.

Anytime you start singing Johnny Cash, you're walking on hallowed ground.

But good hymns? They live past the people who wrote them. Hymns never die.

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.

For monarchy to work, one man must be wise. For democracy to work, a majority of the people must be wise. Which is more likely?

Unfortunately, when choosing how to live or move, most of us are not as free as we think. Our options are strikingly limited, and they are defined by the planners, engineers, politicians, architects, marketers, and land speculators who imprint their own values on the urban landscape.

Britton is one of those people whose ideas seem too theoretical, too pie-in-the-sky to matter, until suddenly they change the world.