Quotes About Impact

Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.

Owen meany who rarely wasted words and who had the conversation-stopping habit of dropping remarks like coins into a deep pool of water... remarks that sank, like truth, to the bottom of the pool where they would remain untouchable.

In this world," Franny once observed, "just as you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

When people die, Vargas - I mean the people you will always remember, the ones who changed your life - they never really go away, Pepe told the young doctor.

We don't always have a choice how we get to know one another. Sometimes, people fall into our lives cleanly-as if out of the sky, or as if there were a direct flight from Heaven to Earth-the same sudden way we lose people, who once seemed they would always be part of our lives.

By '95 - in New York, alone - more Americans had died of AIDS than were killed in Vietnam.

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

What we witnessed with the death of Kennedy was the triumph of television; what we saw with his assassination, and with his funeral, was the beginning of television's dominance of our culture-- for television is at its most solemnly self-serving and at its mesmerizing best when it is depicting the untimely deaths of the chosen and the golden. It is as witness to the butchery of heroes in their prime-- and of all holy-seeming innocents-- that televisions achieves its deplorable greatness.

Every time you throw a snail off the dock, Ray teased Homer Wells, you're making someone start his whole life over. Maybe I'm doing him a favor, said Homer Wells, the orphan.

You are never over your childhood, not until you are under the train—unter dem Zug.

And maybe it was fair; if a book was any good, it was a slap in the face to someone.

THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GET AMERICANS TO NOTICE ANYTHING IS TO TAX THEM OR DRAFT THEM OR KILL THEM," Owen said.

What would Miss Frost have thought of me? I wondered; I didn't mean my writing . What would she have thought of my relationships with men and women? Had I ever protected anyone? For whom had I truly been worthwhile?

History is composed of the smallest, often undetected mistakes.

There's no stopping the Catholic Church," Nora had said. "You shouldn't try to stop them; all you can do is try to control the damage they do." Grace

You are never over your childhood, not until

She was intimidating to me in the way someone who never remembers your name can be intimidating. 'In this world,' Franny once observed, 'just when you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that they've met you.

rape, Garp thought, made men feel guilty by association.

Idiot Wind." Jack would always remember that song.)

Writers who have any audience have more readers than they know. Juan Diego was more famous than he thought.

It means touch, basically—almost a hammered kind of touch

I just love it when certain people feel free to tell writers what the correct words are. When I hear the same people use impact as a verb, I want to throw up!

Don't you see, Johnny? If he could, he would cut off his hands for you—that's how it makes him feel, to have touched that baseball bat, to have swung that bat with those results. It's how we all feel—you and me and Owen. We've lost a part of ourselves.

I thought that fanatics would always have an audience; all one might hope to influence was the size of the audience.