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Quotes About Influence

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' Yeah, well, whoever wrote that was a friggin' idiot.
~ Marley Gibson, The Awakening
Can't say what impresses me most about my followers – their good looks, their incredible intellects, or their immunity to cheap flattery.
~ David Burge
Jersey Shore has killed more brain cells than alcohol, cocaine, and meth combined.
~ Michelle Templet
My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.
~ Jerry Lee Lewis
The easiest way to be the prettiest girl at a party is to rig the guest list.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
The prettier the wine bottle, the higher the likelihood sorority girls will buy it.
~ Lauren Leto
Even I realized that money was to politicians what the eucalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter, and something to crap on.
~ P.J. O'Rourke
Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.
~ Raheel Farooq
If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.
~ Ted Nugent
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.
~ Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.
~ Chris Abani
Authority is itself inherently an act of imagination.
~ Richard Sennett
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.
~ Rowan Williams
I am really the victim of other people's imagination.
~ John Hurt
Imagination governs the world.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
~ Franz Grillparzer
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
~ Donald Sutherland
I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply. I find things are more varied that way.
~ John Hurt
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.
~ John Stott
Jobs' incredible skill was as a storyteller, a salesman. He could captivate our imaginations and reel us in. He was more P.T. Barnum than Thomas Edison.
~ Alex Gibney
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
~ Joseph Heller