Quotes About Influence

There are men who are willing to marry a woman they do not care about merely because she is admired by other men. Such a relation exists between many men and their thoughts.

As a postscript, it is interesting to note that on a visit to London in 1886, Ouida did meet Oscar Wilde and indeed published four articles in his magazine Woman's World between 1888 and 1889; her experience of knowing Wilde, who described her as "the last romantic", did influence her later works, however superficially.

Hence, being thus suited to the Age which had begotten her, being thus its creature and its likeness, she bad thriven in it as the snake thrives in hot and poisonous waters which for all purer and healthier things breed death.

Now came the question, what should I do? "Nothing," the correct thing, according to the governor. "Stand for the county," my mother suggested. "Go as attaché to my cousin, the envoy to St. Petersburg," my relatives opined, who had triumphed, with much unholy glory, over my rustication, as is the custom of relatives from time immemorial.

he could command an audience, set his box upright on its pole, opened its case, and began to play, bidding me dance to the music. The puppets never tired, of course; and I suppose he thought I was like them.

Perhaps too my name will be joined to theirs [the names of famous poets].

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless

We can only cope with the dangers of language if we recognize that language is by nature magical and therefore highly dangerous.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

Officially, we didn't have a band leader. Unofficially, we all knew it was Tony [Iommi].

At the court hearing, Howard Weitzman told the judge that if they were gonna ban 'Suicide Solution' and hold me responsible for some poor kid shooting himself, then they'd have to ban Shakespeare, 'cos Romeo and Juliet's about suicide, too.

Bands like The Move , Traffic and The Moody Blues were proving that you didn't have to be from Liverpool to be successful.

Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.

Money is in some respects life's fire it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Bartók. Blame it on Bartók. Or the bossanova.

Bureaucracy will be the deity of the twentieth century.

No good can come of association with anything labelled Gwladys or Ysobel or Ethyl or Mabelle or Kathryn. But particularly Gwladys.

Satire doesn't effect change.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relative. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing too.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy the whores are us.

There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.