Quotes About Impact

I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people.

Being a part of 'Hamilton' is remarkably special. It's a very powerful show that has spectacular emotional and political relevance.

Sarah Polley's 'Stories We Tell,' James Ponsoldt's 'The Spectacular Now,' Destin Daniel Cretton's 'Short Term 12' - these are really important movies.

In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference.

I met Donald Barthelme when I was 30, and it's fair to say that before that moment, I was pre-modern, and after I met him, I was nudged rather forcefully towards this other end of the spectrum.

We started solely concentrating on cleaning up the Garbage Patch because we felt it was the most neglected part of the spectrum of solutions.

You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.

We don't know what is going to happen with Brexit, it's not going to be good for the North anyway whatever happens. It's not going to be good for Ireland whatever happens. And the problem is we don't know what is going to happen so we can't really prepare so everything is speculation.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

We have no blasphemy laws these days but with that freedom comes the responsibility which should always attend the exercise of free speech: truth, courtesy and an awareness of impact. It is the last of these which is so neglected by so much modern comedy.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

I think almost every political leader is always told that the next speech they make is the most crucial one.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.

If all our agents would abridge their speeches one half, I am satisfied the effect produced would be much greater. The 'art of leaving off' at the right time, and in the right place, is one of the most difficult things to learn.

I don't want to spend my last few whatever it is, months or years on this earth, giving speeches.

Hollywood is right. A good and strong movie can have a more powerful social impact than any and all political speeches or newspaper editorials and columns.

That's what I love about death on 'Game of Thrones.' Nobody has dying speeches. Nobody has anything like that. Once you're gone, you're gone.

Nobody wants to hear long speeches.

Many sportsmen, like myself and my team-mates, artists, and musicians all have unique chances and responsibilities to make themselves heard. We have the possibility to reach the parts that political speeches will never reach.

At some point early on, I realized that three of the greatest speeches ever delivered were by Winston Churchill, and they were written and delivered within a four-week period of each other.

I was wanting something new, and for me the Beatles were... outstanding. I was breathless, speechless.

Speed is something that, in the heavyweight division, we don't have a lot of.