Quotes About Influence

I feel Italian, but I also feel French," she said. "Italy is deeper. France is strong, but it's after." Actually, one of the surprises about meeting [Valeria Bruni Tedeschi] is how Italian she seems. Though she has no trace of an Italian accent when speaking French—and says that, in Italian, she shows signs of having lived in France—she sounds Italian when speaking English. There is no suggestion of French at all.

My father was someone that I always looked to for guidance. I sought to emulate his beliefs and his actions. He was a former Jesuit Catholic priest turned professor and scientist. My father led by word and by deed. He taught me ethics and morality through the study of philosophy, especially that of Socrates.

I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

Cliff was the backbone. Cliff was the guy that everybody looked to. If there was a big decision to be made it was done in the inner workings. But it seemed to me, if there was something Cliff wasn't gonna like, it wasn't gonna happen. Cliff was the Keith Richards of the band. No one fucked with Cliff.

I guess the nicest thing about being, I won't say famous but being popular is a more proper word for me to use would be that if you've got a recognizable name, a lot of times you can get people to do things for you ordinarily that you wouldn't get done.

the father figure was perhaps physically, and definitely emotionally, absent when the boy was in his latency phase. As a boy, therefore, the serial killer had no positive father figure with whom to identify.

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

When you let money speak for you, it drowns out anything else you meant to say.

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Basta con hacerse buenas cuñas y de nombre. El médico del Señor Presidente por aquí... El médico del Señor Presidente por allá... Y eso sí, ya ves; eso sí ya es ser algo...

Pero la tercera generación es la encargada de hablar por todos, por los vivos y por los enterrados.

Every man is the son of his own works.

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

A finger in every pie.

Miguel de Cervantes

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Presume to put in her oar.

When the head aches, all the members partake of the pains.

He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.