Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Rash

Look at people that influenced me - but I didn't know if I had that sort of 'I'm going to take you under my wing' person.

I think parents' media use is probably an important influence on kids' media use.

I think that's their major source of influence.

Todd Oldham

I want to thank him for being such a kind influence to me personally. There's a lot to learn from someone who celebrates life in that bigness.

Ludwig von Mises

Big business depends entirely on the patronage of those who buy its products: the biggest enterprises loses its power and its influence when it loses its customers.

Ludwig von Mises

No one can escape the influence of a prevailing ideology.

Roger McGuinn

People have told me that other artists have been influenced by my music, and it's flattering. It's a wonderful thing.

We're really starting to see the strongest influences of the '80s in spring 2006.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan.

Pearl Cleage

If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.

We are to influence people not to be influenced.

Walter Isaacson

we were looking for influence and why we have to suffer through 'Godzilla.'

Elizabeth McCracken

When it comes to other people's writing, my older influences are more powerful than more recent ones, partially because I'm now more worried that I'll suddenly accidentally steal something from another writer.

Pinot noir is very site specific. You can recognize a Russian River style. The area's influences is why the taste is so unique.

John C. Maxwell

Praise them for what they do well, both privately and publicly.

John Dewey

When others are not doing what we would like them to or are threatening disobedience, we are most conscious of the need of controlling them and of the influences by which they are controlled.

John Dewey

An inanimate being is, of course, continuous with its surroundings; but the environing circumstances do not, save metaphorically, constitute an environment. For the inorganic being is not concerned in the influences which affect it.

Joey Santiago

Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

Mahathir Mohamad

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

Henri Matisse

For my part I have never avoided the influence of others. I would have considered it cowardice and a lack of sincerity toward myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

Benjamin Booker

I guess I would call my music blues punk. Theres a lot of influences.

He was likely under the influence of narcotics. We are still waiting for results from the toxicology report.

Another wild day in the market place. There's defiantly a confluence of influences right now.

People don't feel they have any influence at all.

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

Jay Reatard

During the writing process, I tend not to listen to too much music. I obviously wear a lot of influences on my sleeve, but if I was listening to too many records, I would turn into too much of a monkey.

At the end of the day, we take our influences and we try to piece small sections of each of them into a new puzzle.

Emilio Estefan

They're versatile because they're bicultural. They have the syncopation of Latin music, and at the same time, they have all the influence of American pop.

They didn't want to be influenced in any way; the work has to stand alone.

James Boswell

Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.

Fareed Zakaria

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence,