Quotes About Impact

It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.

When scoring music, the idea is to ensure that your song makes it to the playlist on your audiences' music player and stands out from the multitude of songs released every day.

Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn't work, and it didn't work, and it just came to a standstill.

Whenever people hear that Kurt Cobain was a fan of my standup, it's like hearing Jimi Hendrix loved Buddy Hackett or something.

Hopefully standup will become special again.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

It's the arrogance of man to think that man can change the climate of the world. Only nature can change the climate. A volcano, for instance.

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

You must judge a man's greatness by how much he will be missed.

If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

Every man has an atmosphere which is affecting every other.

Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible.

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . .

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

Oh man. If I had magic powers... I would hope that I would use them for good. I think I would. But I would do something pretty trivial like making traffic disappear.

Paul Harvey was the most listened to man in the history of radio. ... There is no one who will ever come close to him.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

We must win rulers; political, economic, scientific, artistic personalities. They are the engineers of souls. They mold the souls of men. Winning them, you win the people they lead and influence.

A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.