Quotes About Impact

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age.

Words matter deeply to the authors of Proverbs, for they see words as powerful vehicles of good or evil, just as much so as actual deeds.

Shoes block pain, not impact! Pain teaches us to run comfortably! From the moment you start going barefoot, you will change the way you run.

running shoes may be the most destructive force to ever hit the human foot. Barefoot

Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry," Mark Twain used to say.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

There is no one so grateful as the man to whom you have given just the book his soul needed and he never knew it.

Il mondo ha stampato libri per 450 anni, eppure la polvere da sparo ha tuttora una più larga diffusione. Non importa! L'inchiostro da stampa è il più grande esplosivo: vincerà.

Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

only two individuals in the world whose mere announced arrival guaranteed pandemonium on the streets: the Pope and Mick Jagger.

Hackworth focused on what had long been the most active aspect of international law, the impact of war on commercial relations.

The cool part about working for Disney is that they've allowed me to be a change agent.

I don't think that artists of any kind would or could sacrifice their artistic freedom by being more responsible with their influence on people, especially young people.

How is it that one match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box of matches to start a campfire?

It's wrong to do NOTHING when you have the power to do SOMETHING.

So why go out as a question mark when you can go out as an exclamation point instead?

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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

My goal is more to be remembered. They'll remember this thing and like it in the future. The trick is to stay remembered long enough for that to happen.

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.