Famous Quotes & Sayings

I don't think it's ever been about Cheney's staff, ... It's about him. Cheney's influence has always been his own.

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Calvin Coolidge

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

Brian Lumley

I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.

In our society a man is known by the company he owns.

Clay Aiken

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Danny Brown

Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.

Condoleezza Rice

Power is nothing unless you can turn it into influence.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Deepak Chopra

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

James has been a tremendous influence at the club, not only with his performances on the field, but also with his coaching,

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

He was on the run a lot. My wife and I tried everything to keep him at home. There was a big influence from friends to keep him on the run. We were having a real struggle.

He had a tremendous influence on everyone in the valley. He was a role model for everyone to live up to.

If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.

He was an influence. I think there would be a lot of people in this town at that time and still to this day, who would say that if Earl had been the coach, we never would have had a championship team.

E. P. Thompson

I would be naive to think that it's not going to be heavily influenced by a lot of things he's taught me.

Beck

I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind of annoying, to be frank.

Barry Eisler

I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.

We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school stuff as well. Those influences of ours, we just soak them up, and they just come out in our writing and our performances.

The opinion was that he was not under the influence.

We think this is a more positive outlook than many on the Street were looking for and should have a positive influence on the stock.

Robert Quine

To me, the positive thing about it was we were pulling out these old influences like the Velvet Underground and the Stooges that were gone.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.

Robert Morgan

We would not want to lose one person over this, and will do everything in our power and influence to make sure that doesn't happen,

Bill Crawford

To influence others, we must know what is influencing them... and they must know that we get it.

I think there's a tremendous influence on the community.

Jim Craig

My views may have had some influence ... But their views have influenced me as well,