Quotes About Influential

However you feel about Dimebag, this is one of the most influential metal guitar players of the '90s. I was just talking to someone that I am hiring to bring on the tour who said that, when he was at the funeral, that Eddie Van Halen came and put his striped guitar in the coffin. That's a pretty big deal.

Alasdair MacIntyre is one of the world's most influential living moral philosophers. He has written 30 books on ethics and held a variety of professorial chairs over the past four decades in North America.

What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.

Anthony Boucher (1911–1968) was one of the most remarkable figures ever produced by the mystery genre. And

His best work bore the stamp of John O'Hara and John P. Marquand.

I'm not hyper-opinionated, but when I do have an opinion, I'm very stubborn, and I want to persuade everyone to my point of view.

For one, I think as a missionary you gotta be stubborn. And you gotta try to be persuasive.

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy; I loved that book.

She was the sort of woman who could suck out free will and self esteem with a look.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.

Varro produced an influential encyclopaedia, Nine Books of Disciplines, in which he outlined nine arts: grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, musical theory, medicine and architecture. Later writers omitted the last two arts.79 In Rome, by the end of the first century AD, education had been more or less standardised and the seven liberal arts identified. In turn, these would become the basis of medieval education

He's a whirlwind among breezes

Nobody can beat those songs on 'Abbey Road.'

My favorite albums are really short.

Among some of the famous men educated by the Jesuits we find Bossuet, Corneille, Molière, Tasso, Fontenelle, Diderot, Voltaire, and Bourdaloue, himself a Jesuit.

Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.

When it's someone like that, someone important, you never forget them.

Surround yourself with people who make you a better person.

Hang out with the powerful and people will kneel before you wherever you go.

Kolmogorov – Poincaré – Gauss – Euler – Newton, are only five lives separating us from the source of our science.

You've turned into quite a bossy little thing, Myrnin said. I think I might like it.

I don't think I've ever met a drummer who didn't tell me that my dad was an influence. He's a tough act to follow.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

In 1975 Wally Broecker published an influential paper correctly predicting a twentieth-century warming of 0.8°C, and worrying about the consequences for agriculture and sea level.64