Quotes About Impact

I recently spent quite a bit of time in Sheffield, England, which is where I'm from. I wouldn't move back there, but it's funny when you spend a bit of time in the place where you were brought up. You kind of realize how that place has had quite a big effect on you or made you a certain way.

I've spent my life at public work, and I've spent many a day on a good cause that didn't have any lift, didn't have enough support, didn't have enough resources, and you could only get so far.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.

Everyone in the world knows 'Spider-Man.' And to be accepted into such a large franchise was overwhelming.

What with 'The Brady Bunch,' 'Spider-Man' and 'Sound of Music,' I have three cults going.

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

I don't think 'Jurassic Park' could have been so much fun had Spielberg not made a 'Schindler's List.'

I think I'm always interested in the people who aren't generals or master spies or royalty. The people caught in the crossfire.

This continuing spike in gas prices is bad for consumers, bad for our economy, and bad for all other businesses. It is hurting us and costing us jobs.

Many people believe the whole catastrophe is the oil we spill, but that gets diluted and eventually disarmed over time. In fact, the oil we don't spill, the oil we collect, refine and use, produces CO2 and other gases that don't get diluted.

The Porter Ranch situation is the BP oil spill on land.

Having our own children in good schools does not inure us from the ill-effect of others having theirs in poor schools. Having great roads within our gated homes and offices does not help when our fancy cars spill out on to poor public roads.

The BP oil spill nearly crippled our state and did damage to our coast and communities that will take years to rectify.

There's a lot to be said about what's happening to our ocean, big companies polluting it with their oil and all the raw garbage that's being spilled in there.

Every meal is so important and colours the rest of your day - my whole day can go into a spin if I make the wrong choice at lunchtime!

To apply spin with security, you must learn to make a snug bridge with your forefinger looped over the cue. When you hit the cueball, follow straight through; don't let your cue rise in the air after impact.

The good kind of spin - backspin - comes from hitting the ball cleanly, then making a divot after impact.

Spin Me Round was number one all over the world, everywhere. It changed the face of pop music, no question. We took technology further than Trevor Horn.

China's hyper-growth is causing the world's most populous nation to spin out of the control of its leaders.

You don't have to sever your spinal cord to be paralyzed for life. You could just touch it and be paralyzed for life.

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences.

I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.

I think Obama and the economists around him have a very sophisticated understanding of both globalization and the technology revolution and the impact they're having on the world economy and they way they're creating these winner-take-all spirals.

My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.