Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm happy to have been a positive influence.

Bill Johnson

Faith doesn't deny a problems existence. It denies it a place of influence.

Bela Kun

My personal influence in the Revolutionary Governing Council is such that the dictatorship of the proletariat is firmly established, since the masses are backing me.

Arthur Henderson

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Brian Tracy

Your ability to negotiate, communicate, influence, and persuade others to do things is absolutely indispensable to everything you accomplish in life.

Boz Scaggs

My earliest influences were things I heard in my household.

Lykke Li

Where I've been hasn't influenced my music. It's more what I listen to. You can find music everywhere, so moving hasn't really influenced my music, more me as a person.

Chad Harbach

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

Nobu Matsuhisa

I used to watch my mother cooking when I was a child; she influenced me a lot.

We have no extraordinary insight or influence in AOL, nor do we seek any,

I knew everything he did (physically) influenced how he behaved. They couldn't be separated from each other. That was the struggle (for me), trying to get them together.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

No, it's this decade, the one we're living in. It's the only thing that can influence you.

Ikue Mori

I started listened to music in the late '60s- it was all rock music. Jimi Hendrix, the Doors. They didn't really influence me, I just listened to it.

What a scam. It's influence peddling at its finest.

They're having to scramble more to keep this influence peddling under the radar, ... Is that progress?

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Iran has lots of influence in southern Iraq. And they have not used it nearly as much as they can.

Bo Ryan

Him being a leader returning means that he's going to influence other young men into having better years they might not have otherwise,

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

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.

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.

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.

The opinion was that he was not under the influence.

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

Pat Metheny

The chorused thing, I would have to say I was the first to use extensively in jazz, and that seemed to have influenced a lot of other guys.