Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leigh Hunt

Patience and gentleness is power.

Oprah Winfrey

You are the single biggest influence in your life.

Louis Kahn

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Jason Mraz

Everything in life influences my music.

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,

Peggy Noonan

The core of the concept of a bribe is an inducement improperly influencing the performance of a public function meant to be gratuitously exercised.

Maya Angelou

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

Martin Short

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife.

Michael Chabon

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Nick Flynn

Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Policy counselleth a gift, given wisely and in season; And policy afterwards approveth it, for great is the influence of gifts.

Even when he was in there, we were ready for him and we stopped him. Missing him was a big influence on their plays.

That had a big influence on the outcome of the game.

Everyone loves kids. I think having my own was a big influence in wanting quality care.

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

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.

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

Prince Charles

It's funny, the influence that women can have on getting us men sorted out is enormous.

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

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.

I'm not saying that he wasn't wrong because I know he was in the wrong, but I know he was under the influence and nobody can tell me different.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Manmohan Singh

China's influence is bound to rise.

Mahatma Gandhi

My Hinduism must be a very poor thing if it cannot flourish even under the most adverse influence.

John C. Maxwell

True leadership cannot be awarded, appointed, or assigned. It comes only from Influence.

J. M. Coetzee

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Horace

It is said that the propriety even of old Cato often yielded to the exciting influence of the grape.