Quotes About Impact

Record sales don't matter when the people who bought the records are dead and gone.

The matter forever, you have to matter to those who don't care.

We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

Your heart is my piñata.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.

History is filled with brilliant people who wanted to fix things and just made them worse.

Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.

When you think about it, Johnny Appleseed was a fucking ecological terrorist.

Fathers. Mothers. With all their caring and attention. They will f--- you up, every time.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

Every time we burn a gallon of gas or an acre of rain forest, aren't we killing the future to preserve the present?

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.

And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid never knew the man's name. But he never forgot that smile. Hero isn't the first word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

Sticks and stones may break your bones, but watch out for those damn words.

My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.

Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart. — Chuck Palahniuk, Stranger Than Fiction

From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.

Sticks and stones will break your bones, but now words can kill, too.