Quotes About Influence

A man doesn't know what he thinks until a woman makes him think it.

Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen.

My mother was against me being an actress - until I introduced her to Frank Sinatra.

All because Darke stuff stuck to me at work, and then I brought it home. Horrible.

I saw Deep Purple live once and I paid money for it and I thought, 'Geez, this is ridiculous.' You just see through all that sort of stuff. I never liked those Deep Purples or those sort of things. I always hated it. I always thought it was a poor man's Led Zeppelin.

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

I've played the powerless in too many dark scenes. I was blessed with a birth and a death and I guess I just want some say in between

Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do is give an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.

But books, she had found, were too powerful, and invariably misleading.

no man is free of his own history.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

And remember this if you ever think you're too small to be effective -- you've never been in bed with a mosquito.

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've never been to bed with a mosquito.

Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination?

But not all books must be universally approved or applauded to bring meaning; books are, ultimately, the most personal of media. They can be important to only one person or to only a few people, and yet because of that they still have tremendous influence.

Don't count on God to make things happen, what if the God itself is counting on you.

Little Lloyd, what in the world are you watching?" He was sitting there, his eyes glued to the screen where a half-naked girl was performing calisthenics to something that passed for music. "Britney Spears," he said.

Just because someone grows up shouldn't mean that the people who helped him get that way no longer counted.