Influence Quotes - Page 36

Honor, publicly, results in influence, privately.

People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

It's not the money. It's not the fame. It's the influence.

I am a feminist. And I'm so glad that Lena Dunham exists, because she is one too, and she's quite vocal about it. Yes, women have more freedom and more influence than ever, but it's hardly equal. It's just not.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

Strange is the influence of Marx on character.

He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

One always hopes that you're going to have influence and staying power, but you never know.

One fascinating development in recent years is how large companies like Wal-Mart or the major apparel brands are dramatically influencing behavior throughout their supply chains by requiring CSR compliance as a condition of being a supplier.

Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Very few worries can stand against the influence of a good long walk ... How many petty annoyances have I thus walked away!

Biggest influence: my mother.

Roberto Calasso's survey of the renewed interest in myth demonstrates how decisive the gods' influence was on modern literature. Calasso is not only immensely learned; he is one of the most original thinkers and writers we have today.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

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

[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.

I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor.

My father was a huge influence on me.

Who are my influences? Everybody.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

One myth-perception is our continued emphasis of a Newtonian materialistic world, which by definition emphasizes the primacy of matter and somewhat ignores or minimizes the influence of the immaterial part of the universe.

Mantovani was a great influence on me.