Quotes About Influence

Maybe it was the angle, but her fawn's eyes, looking up at me, seemed larger than ever. I had to make an effort to keep my balance lest I fall into them.

The kids who leave their favorite authors behind do not in fact leave us utterly abandoned, but in due time drive children of their own to the bookstore and the post office.

Love makes its own magic.

He was the Grand Marshall of our Everyday Parade

It was a rebellion she led, a rebellion for rather than against.

History sits on our shoulders, while reading opens our hearts.

Easier to rearrange the stars than a father's mind.

Henry was staring at the sky. Palmer saw Henry for what he was: a captive, strong enough to warn him about last night, but too weak to do anything except follow Beans. He saw in Henry something of himself, and worse, what he could become.

The point is, in a group everybody acts pretty much the same, that's kind of how the group holds itself together.

Such a man became a leader, one of the great men, who guided people in their thoughts and deeds, as a weaver guides his colored threads through the intricacies of the pattern.

But hatreds of large groups of people must have been the most valuable of all. I could barely imagine the prize earned by the person who managed to inculcate in all blond, blue-eyed people a long-lasting hatred of dark ones.

Belief is a powerful lens; it can shape the world world to it.

What else matters but pedigree and rumor, my lord? Those things make the world go around.

I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa," Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look shocked whenever Dad went Old-Faithful-profane, and I began to wonder if Lisa and I shouldn't swear more so Franklin and Teddy weren't so put off by curse words.

Make them want to give you the thing you're taking.

Stories are nations, empires.

You can't just say that, Pasquale. Those words have tremendous power. It's how people end up married.

I remembered his saying that I really only lived in the perceptions of others, and suddenly it seemed painfully true. I couldn't think of a time when I'd acted on my own, when I wasn't driven by my grief

And do you have opinions that John Locke didn't write first?

I won't pretend that I didn't like the voice, the power that changing horoscopes gave me.

but in Claire's mind it would always be Holly Golightly who stole her daddy. We belong to nobody and nobody belongs to us.

This is what happens when your life is authored not by God, but by David Mamet.

Always speak first to the toughest person in the room.

It's one thing to know what people want. It's another to CREATE that want in them. To BUILD that desire.