Quotes About Impact

To express something is to conserve its virtue and take away its terror.

Quem sabe se eu estarei morto depois de amanhã? Se eu estiver morto depois de amanhã, a trovoada de depois de amanhã Será outra trovoada do que seria se eu não tivesse morrido. Bem sei que a trovoada não cai da minha vista, Mas se eu não estiver no mundo. O mundo será diferente. Haverá eu a menos. E a trovoada cairá num mundo diferente e não será a mesma trovoada

The truth is that nothing changes anything and what we say or do only brushes the tops of the mountains in whose valleys all things sleep.

As guerras e as revoluções — há sempre uma ou outra em curso — chegam, na leitura dos seus efeitos, a causar não horror mas tédio.

It's enough for me to want something for that thing to die. My destiny, however, is not powerful enough to prove deadly to just anything. It has the unfortunate disadvantage of being deadly only to those things I want.

La verdad es que las cosas que tenemos nos tienen ellas también a nosotros en contrapartida: lo que poseemos nos posee.

I haven't learned yet to be the instrument of unconscious good.

There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells.

Writing this, he had reached the pit of despair and he thought that reading it, she would at least begin to sense his tragedy and her part in it. It was not that she had ever forced her way on him. That had never been necessary. Her way had simply been the air he breathed and when at last he had found other air, he couldn't survive in it. He felt that even if she didn't understand at once, the letter would leave her with an enduring chill and perhaps in time lead her to see herself as she was.

There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme

You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. The Nature and Aim of Fiction

I sure am sick of the Civil War.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

There are a lot of movies I've done that come and go, and don't really establish a growing fan base.

The thought crossed my mind about not wanting to alienate my fan base, but I don't know what would alienate them or bring them in, so I decided not to think about it.

At the end of the day it's the fans who make you who you are.

The fans really have never concerned me.

It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment.

If I can be a role model for kids, then that's fantastic. That's what I want to do.

Fantasy is like an idealized reality, and the core of fantasy is the one person can make a difference.

These damn smartphones have enabled us to do far more than we were ever meant to all at once.

I know people say plays are only an evening's entertainment. But you can make it mean a lot to the audience, even a farce or comedy.