Quotes About Influence

i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade.

I guess it's a choice we make, she said. What's a choice? I asked. And she said, How much of the world we let it.

The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.

i have no idea why anyone would want to become a teacher. i mean, you have to spend the day with a group of kids who either hate your guts or are kissing up to you to get a good grade. that has to get to you after a while, being surrounded by people who will never like you for any real reason.

Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say -A

I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Southern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you permeate my very language.

The weight of the world comes largely from its past.

try not to listen to it, but when someone tells you those things enough, you can't help it. Because if they speak loud enough and often enough, that's the only voice you're able to hear.

We choose how much of the world we want to let into our lives. Both the beauty of it and the horror of it. There has to be a point of insulation -- but some of us insulate real close right down to our very selves and others insulate wider, let more of the world in.

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possibly. And when it's just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be -A

This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love sits across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible.

Haven't I taught her anything ? Infinite Darlene is clearly exasperated. I mean, I know she has bad taste. But this is like licking the bottom of your stiletto.

My mother once told me that you really know someone when you know their parents.

It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians out a premium on destroying freedom of the press.

It's through media that dehumanizing ideas are spread and reproduced. That's why totalitarians puts a premium on destroying freedom of the press.

Like religion, politics traffics in and plays upon our deepest hopes and fears. And like religion, authoritharian political propaganda works by first making us feel endangered and then offering us a way to escape form our feelings of helplessness.

the Great Actor, capable of bringing herself to tears, may extort our admiration for her "accomplishment," but she will never leave us stronger; she has made us pay a price, and made us pretend we like it, but we leave the theatre moved only by our capacity to be moved.

Flattery takes away the capacity of the listener to make a rational, unbiased opinion.

When all politicians are agreed, someone is getting bought off, for how can the interests of their various constituencies be identical? Only if that identity is the love of money and power.

The power of the dramatist, and of the political flack therefore, resides in the ability to state the problem.

Planeando su Balzac, Rodin llegó a rastrear a un sastre que el novelista había empleado cuarenta años antes; y le encargó un traje con las medidas del muerto.

Jackson Pollock alguna vez fue asistente de David Alfaro Siqueiros.

Ese material se te ocurre cuando estás borracho? Preguntó un primo de Faulkner.

La tiranía de los ignorantes es insuperable y está asegurada por siempre jamás. Dijo Einstein.