Quotes About Influence

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

Insanity is not evil, but all evil is insane. Evil itself is never funny, but insanity sometimes can be. We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities.

In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Your past is my Future.

English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.

Those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly we are not the same afterwards.

Every drop in the ocean counts.

You change the world by being yourself.

Writers are engineers of human souls.

Patagonia's image is a human voice. It expresses the joy of people who love the world, who are passionate about their beliefs, and who want to influence the future. It is not processed; it won't compromise its humanity. This means that it will offend, and it will inspire.

Behind every good politician is a soft, cuddly teddy bear

Many believe that WMATA planned a station for Georgetown, then withdrew its plans in response to opposition from politically influential residents who feared that the subway would bring undesirables—the poor, the criminal, the nonwhite, and the tacky—to their exclusive neighborhood. In fact, although Georgetown residents did oppose a transit station, their attitude was essentially irrelevant, for a Georgetown station was never seriously considered.

Other people's words are so important. And then without warning they stop being important, along with all those words of yours that their words prompted you to write. Much of the excitement of a new novel lies in the repudiation of the one written before. Other people's words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to wherever you're going.

Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and women, and finally they ruin themselves, accidentally, simply by getting old.

Archie says -Science- the same way he says -Modern-, as if someone has lent him the words and made him swear not to break them.

The fear was respect, the respect, fear. If you didn't have the fear you had nothing.

The term 'role model' is so odious, but the truth is it's a very strong writer indeed who gets by without a model kept somewhere in mind. I think of Keats. Keats slogging away, devouring books, plagiarizing, impersonating, adapting, struggling, growing, writing many poems that made him blush and then a few that made him proud, learning everything he could from whomever he could find, dead or alive, who might have something useful to teach him.

You want to believe there are limits to what money can make happen, lines it can't cross.

There's never any knowing—how am I to put it?—which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever. —E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread

Did all friendships—all relations—involve this discreet and mysterious exchange of qualities, this exchange of power?