Quotes About Impact

It was the way she said it that started me feeling.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

The pen is mightier than the sword, if you shoot that pen out of a gun

Life is chaotic and unpredictable. If a butterfly flaps its wings in one part of the world, it could cause people at the opposite end of the globe to watch a Discovery Channel special on butterflies

If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, I hope it lands on a philosophy professor.

Unlike Paul Newman, who seems to think that salad dressing is the cure-all for America's ills, I'm a man of action.

The [Motion Picture Production Code] took effect on March 31, 1930, 5 months too late to prevent the Wall Street Crash, but early enough to keep The Sixties from happening until approximately 1964. (When America fell victim to the British Invasion).

Live, love, laugh, leave a legacy.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You could no more call them back then ignore the mess they left when they fell.

A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person – a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.

I must change in order to change the world. The only revolution with any permanent value takes part in the breast of the individual person.

For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root - Thoreau

I had come to take Roosevelt for granted," Webster wrote his parents, "like spring and Easter lilies, and now that he is gone, I feel a little lost.

D-Day was the pivot point of the 20th century. Everything that went before it can be said to have led up to it; all that followed came about because of what happened that day.

A tank cannon thrust through a kitchen door really stimulates exodus

Invoking the story of David, Davies implored his students to "imbibe and cherish a public spirit. Serve your generation. Live not for your selves, but the public. Be the servants of the Church; the servants of your Country; the servants of all." He exhorted them to "esteem yourselves" not by how much "more happy, honourable and important" you can become but by how much "more useful you are!

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and where they have knitted up; mental wounds can grind and ooze for decades and be re-opened by the quietest whisper.

I am magnificently prepared for the long littleness of life. There is diddley-squat for me to look forward to. Zilch, zero, zip-all, sweet lipperty-pipperty nothing. The only thought that will give me the energy to carry on is that someone has a life which would be diminished by my departure from it.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons; if you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or no they are loaded you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time. Poppycock means soft shit - from the Dutch, I need scarcely remind you, pappe kak.

Alexander Graham Bell was said to have made the following entirely endearing remark soon after he had invented the telephone: 'I do not think I am exaggerating the possibilities of this invention,' he said, 'when I tell you that it is my firm belief that one day there will be a telephone in every major town in America.

If that she-bear had eaten the baby it found o n the mountaintop instead of nursing it, how different the world would now have been

Some are born with a beauty that seems to turn people mad. Fortunately there are very few of us like that, but our power can be unsettling and even eruptive.

Learn subtlety, James," he said. "It is perfectly possible to destroy something innocent, yet leave no public mark.