Quotes About Influence

I have a suspicion the blacks model themselves on the whites now that they're in power. 'Don't you know who we are, man?'

Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.

I'm surrounded by very powerful women and very progressive men.

Good men who exercise power are really the most fascinating of all people.

I never stepped foot into a Brooks Brothers before Mad Men.

Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

I see some parallels [with Barack Obama] but I don't see the leadership that this guy [John F.Kennedy] had of other men and women. It's more than being the smartest guy in room.

Oftentimes when I do a project I do get influenced by the wardrobe. I certainly learned a lot from 'Mad Men' and from Janie (Bryant) in particular. She's just so fabulous.

Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long.

It is only great men who take up a great space by not being there.

A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

Like 'Twin Peaks,' '24,' 'Mad Men,' and 'The Sopranos' before it, 'Downton Abbey' enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

The great men of antiquity were poor.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Great men may die, but there ideas won't.

Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.