Influence Quotes - Page 33

I don't think I came out of anybody. I think I developed out of the influences I described in My Dark Places. American history, L.A. of the 1950s. I'm comfortable with that.

We frequently find that the influence of good women is underrated. It is an influence that is often subtle but yet has tremendous consequences. One woman can make a great difference for a whole nation.

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.

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

I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.

There are major influences on us that people are not aware of. There are big lies that nobody's willing to discuss.

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And theyll tell you if you ask.

The poet and the painter are only truly great by the mutual influences of their studies, and the jealousy of glory has only produced an idle contest.

Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.

If we were to normalize relations right now, we would remove one of the biggest pieces of leverage we have to try to influence and change Iranian behavior.

So much of what I create has been due to the influence of Miles Davis and Donald Byrd, and so many of those that have passed on. Their music, their legacy lives on with the rest of us because we are so highly influenced by their experience and what they have given us.

I dare predict that the influence of the Treaty of Renunciation of War will be felt in a large proportion of all future international acts.

Flowers are sent to do God's work in unrevealed paths, and to diffuse influence by channels that we hardly suspect.

It seems fair to say that while the moral standards of the nineteenth century persisted almost unchanged into the twentieth, moral practices changed sharply, and that though the standards of the nineteenth century persisted the institutions that had sustained them and the sanctions that had enforced them lost influence and authority.

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described.

We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops.

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

Women temper men. We have a good influence on them.

My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.