Quotes About Impact

The destruction of art by sociology and psychoanalysis," he called it.

We would be destroying a habitable world," Sloane said, at once repulsed and amazed.

Aunque todo lo demás falle, siempre podemos asegurarnos la inmortalidad cometiendo algún error espectacular.

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

Why should I care about posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?           attributed to GROUCHO MARX, but also credited to various eighteenth-century English figures

Once in high school someone had shown him a pornographic photograph, and he had collapsed against a watercooler, injuring his ear. This photograph was far superior.

I also told the students that, for the sake of humanity's future, I hoped that they were all sterile.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left.

because when you come right down to it the school is involved in everything that happens in the war, its all the same war and the same world...

You didn't shame anybody into anything." "Oh yes I did. I'm good for you that way. You have a tendency to back away from things otherwise.

Before Elvis there was nothing.

Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

More popular than Jesus More popular than Jesus is part of a remark made by John Lennon of the Beatles in a March 1966 interview, in which he argued that the public were more infatuated with the band than with Jesus, and that Christian faith was declining to the extent that it might be outlasted by rock music. Wikipedia

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. OSCAR WILDE

The Dead were no better than us – they made mistakes, behaved badly, lost the plot, lost hope, treated each other cruelly – and, as we have seen, they certainly cannot be said to have had better lives. Ultimately, though, whatever they started with, and however badly it sometimes ended, all of our distinguished Dead did something that made a difference – and they did it by making something of themselves.

What's the most dangerous animal that has ever lived? Half the human beings who have ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the males only bite plants).

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. MARK TWAIN

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves poison the fountain.

In the United States, the story is particularly one of a handful of extraordinary people, of whom Paul Lewis is one.

In 1918, the world population was 1.8 billion, and the pandemic probably killed 50 to 100 million people, with the lowest credible modern estimate at 35 million. Today the world population is 7.6 billion. A comparable death toll today would range from roughly 150 to 425 million.

During the course of the epidemic, 47 percent of all deaths in the United States, nearly half of all those who died from all causes combined—from cancer, from heart disease, from stroke, from tuberculosis, from accidents, from suicide, from murder, and from all other causes—resulted from influenza and its complications.