Quotes About Impact

O governo sequer se dignou a responder a essa nota, e Bonaparte permaneceu em Paris. O que teria acontecido ao mundo se um funcionário do Ministério tivesse aposto a esse pedido a palavra "deferido", só Deus sabe.

You may be sure that if you succeed in bringing your audience into the presence of something that affects them, they will not care by what road you brought them there; and they will never reproach you for having excited their emotions in spite of dramatic rules.

Never was such a great event, with such ancient causes, so well prepared and so little foreseen.

I soon perceived that the influence of this fact

It seems to me that television is exactly like a gun. Your enjoyment of it is determined by which end of it you're on.

Content, I am not interested in that at all. I don't give a damn what the film is about. I am more interested in how to handle the material so as to create an emotion in the audience. I find too many people are interested in the content. If you were painting a still life of some apples on a plate, it's like you'd be worrying whether the apples were sweet or sour. Who cares?

Art makes nothing happen in a way that makes something happen.

haunts us every step of our lives.

Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

It was true, when you saved someone, they belonged to you in some small way, but it was also true that you belonged to them. They would stay with you and enter into your dreams and your thoughts, as you would enter into theirs.

Let everyone see the blood,' he said. 'Don't clean it up. That's the only way people remember.'... I could see the blood inside my head. It was with me forever, whether or not I wanted to forget.

Each time she sees it she is reminded of how some things are never over they stay with you until they are a part of you, like it or not

You rescue something and you're responsible for it. But maybe that's what love is. Maybe it's like a hit-and-run accident; it smashes you before you can think. You do it no matter the cost and you keep on running.

some things you carry around inside you as though they were part of your blood and bones, and when that happens, there's nothing you can do to forget.

And then I realized what love did. It changed your whole world. Even when you didn't want it to.

One word is spoken aloud and the world changes.

She had ruined my father's life, and mine, and she didn't seem to notice. She was the sort of person who saw only herself and her shadow, and the rest of us disappeared in the bright sunlight.

words that have been said cannot be unspoken

And yet, how much damage could one small book do? How powerful could it be? That was when Sally began to run, because she knew the answer. Words were everything, stories were more powerful than any weapon, books changed lives.

Love was contagious, it passed from soul to soul, it woke a person up and shook her even when she wanted to be left alone.

Some words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.