Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ace Frehley

If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

Deepak Chopra

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

Adam Lambert

Bowie's been a huge influence on me.

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Michael P. Anderson

There are just hundreds of people that have inspired and influenced me in a number of different ways. First of all, you can't forget your parents and all they've done to help you to get here.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The stronger the bar, the more influence it has on everything going on in the galaxy.

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

The movement was influenced by the rise of the dollar.

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

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

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.

Siobhan Davies

It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence.

It is unbelievable the influence you, as coaches, have. You, as coaches, speak volumes to these kids, ... It's what they see that they learn.

Kevin Kelly

Being a private school and having a player like this helps. It can't be anything but a positive influence on your program.

Rita Ora

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

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.

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Paolo Bacigalupi

As a kid, I always liked reading stories where I had a power-projection fantasy. I wanted to be inside of a story where I had power and influence, was going to rise to power, was going to somehow influence my society.

That's going to mean a whole lot of outside money pouring into Minnesota to try to influence the race.

Kirk Hammett

I went through a whole blues period in the Nineties, and that had some influence on 'Load' and 'ReLoad.'

Page Hamilton

We went to South America on a trip and all I had was a Robert Johnson album. So that's a definite influence on the album. My bandmates John [Stanier, drummer] and Henry [Bogdan, bassist] were interested in expanding their roles as writers, so that had a positive impact on the record.