Quotes About Influence

Stories don't always reflect the world; they make it, too. A book is a world inside the world, and sometimes there are worlds within that.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

My mother gave me my drive but my father gave me my dreams.

Through their brainwork, the women had an impact on the fighting that went on.

Had 'Bridesmaids' not ended up being so amazing and successful, we would never have been able to make 'Bachelorette.' So we are in awe of 'Bridesmaids' and totally owe them so much.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.

Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.

[To Dan Quayle:] Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy.

By remaining true to itself, grime and its immediate family of jungle, UK garage, dubstep and so on had taken up where Soul II Soul left off, and plugged in to how many youngsters really thought about their lives and their music.

Shit Does'nt Happen, It's Cause and Effects! " You Cause It, & You Endure the Effects! Correct???

I suppose it is possible to be all of these things. To sort of fall out of who you are into another, as well as to journey back to some essential sense of self. We only see what we see. He was whatever he needed to be, what we asked him to be. Perhaps there are lives like that—they pour into whatever space we have made ready for them to fill.

She didn't want to encourage me by asking questions. She didn't want me to go deeper into that other world. She worried she would lose her Matilda to Victorian England.

We had grown up believing white to be the color of all the important things, like ice cream, aspirin, ribbon, the moon, the stars

Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

Being a leader is a lonely place, you got to be responsible for the decision you made that effect a lot of people. And when you make a decision it's never clear that your decision is right or wrong, it's always in a gray-area.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising, and to balance himself when he is placed.

Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.

We are all a sort of chameleons, that still take a tincture from things near us; nor is it to be wonder'd at in children, who better understand what they see than what they hear.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you

There is one thing that matters -- to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

You don't need to be smarter; you just need dumber friends.

It's not who you know, it's who you sleep with.