Quotes About Influence

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities.

A fool and his money are soon invited everywhere.

Golf, like measles, should be caught young.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

How many of you believe in telekinesis? Raise my hand.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae on the radio!

The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.

We definitely have our finger on the pulse. You have to keep up. We decide what to watch by what's funny.

Infancy conforms to nobody: all conform to it, so that one babe commonly makes four or five out of the adults who prattle and play to it.

It was you readers who really came through, proving once again that when the American people decide to "get involved" in a problem, it is best not to let them have any sharp implements.

I don't care if it doesn't make a nickel. I just want every man, woman, and child in America to see it.

Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.

Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.

The whole world is watching America, and America is watching TV.

As a young girl, if you do something funny - especially if you're Jewish - someone says, 'Oh, have you seen Gilda Radner?'

Bad television is three things: a bullet train to a morally bankrupt youth, a slow spiral into an intellectual void, and of course, a complete blast to watch.

When I die, so does hip hop.

A telescope will magnify a star a thousand times, but a good press agent can do even better.