Quotes About Impact

The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

If you want to change the world, change yourself.

It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it.

Outlaws are not members of society. However, they may be important to society.

The trip left the girl gaga, goofy, tainted, transformed, her nose a busted hymen through which sperm of a thousand colors swam a hootchy-kootchy stroke into her cerebral lagoon.

There's a direct link between the buffalo hunts and Vietnam," said Switters.

what looks like a quick fix today may well end up having far-reaching and unintended consequences tomorrow.

Many of our technology-related problems arise because of the unforeseen consequences when apparently benign technologies are employed on a massive scale.

I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.

Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.

If we can't arrange our own happiness, it's a conceit beyond vulgarity to arrange the happiness of those who come after us.

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Siempre el pasado llega y se va sin importarle lo que deja.

With relationship comes access, and with intimacy comes influence.

What you do to children matters. And they might never forget.

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life.

The best art is political and you ought to be able to make it unquestionably political and irrevocably beautiful at the same time.

Not even trying, he had become the kind of man who could walk into a house and make the women cry. Because with him, in his presence, they could. There was something blessed in his manner. Women saw him and wanted to weep—to tell him that their chest hurt and their knees did too. Strong women and wise saw him and told him things they only told each other:

Make a difference, does it? You stay the night here snake get you.

What a man leaves behind is what a man is.

Girls can do that. Steer a man away from death or drive him right to it.

I want to do good work. I want to be involved in other people's doing good work.