Quotes About Impact

You feel a lot more in your hands if the pitch gets in on you and busts you in the handle. It stings. But when you catch it square, it doesn't seem like you feel it as much.

Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

I think a newspaper should be provocative, stir 'em up, but you can't do that on television. It's just not on.

Memorials become relics if they do not stir our modern conscience.

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

A movie that can touch you and emotionally get inside you and stir you up and maybe remind you of your own humanity is a good thing.

The day I was announced as CEO, I think the stock dropped another 20%.

I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.

When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.

If you put tariffs in place, it creates inflation. If you put inflation in place, you have to raise interest rates. You raise interest rates, and stock markets shouldn't be so high.

You understand in this league that if you don't win, everybody's stock tumbles.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

I've learned that things change. The whole boy band thing almost turned into a stock market crash.

If Tung Chee-hwa dies, the stock market will take off.

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

Frank Ocean called me when I was in Stockholm when I was, like, 17.

Of course, giving is deeply emotional. But supplementing emotion with research makes it more likely that a gift can have a bigger impact. It's like any investment. After all, you wouldn't put funds into stocks or bonds without understanding the potential return. Why wouldn't you do the same when investing in society?

Here at Stoke, I cannot exert too much influence, simply because there is a lack of quality around me.

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked.

Kristi Yamaguchi stole my heart in 1992, and I've never been the same since.

I have stolen the show many times.

The only thing I've ever stolen are hours out of people's lives with meandering conversations.

I saw 'Tootsie' with Jessica Lange when I was eight or nine. I remember feeling something in my stomach. I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to watch that movie over and over again.

I think some days you should do a cartoon that is absolutely just for the laugh, and some days you should do a cartoon that just punches the reader right in the stomach. It's kind of nice to mix it up.