Influence Quotes · Page 43

Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.

— Nathan Englander

I like a lot of modern art. I like Chuck Close a lot. It doesn't necessarily directly influence the work I draw…

— Jim Lee

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

— Stokely Carmichael

Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life…

— Tim Conway

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

— Ida Tarbell

Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back…

— Ross Macdonald

If you want to upgrade your circle of influence, it begins with upgrading yourself.

— Hal Elrod

“Influence in society, however, is a capital which has to be economized if it is to last.”

— Leo Tolstoy

My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was…

— Iris Apfel

Ellen DeGeneres is a huge influence in my life. She's one of the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I…

— Nico Santos

When I was very young, I took no interest in party politics. My line of interest was how can you be part…

— Margrethe Vestager

The first time I was in this state recruiting, that's when I knew I wanted to be a Gator, because I saw…

— Jim McElwain

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence…

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Life and the environment are one thing, not two, and people, as all life, are immersed in the one system. When we…

— Daniel Botkin

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie…

— Jonny Lang

For me, I don't really feel like I have any particular main influences or artists that I pull from; it's more of…

— Tei Shi

I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When…

— Isabel Allende

During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national…

— Saddam Hussein

I hadn't really thought about going to college. Nobody in my family went away to school. The other piece of that was…

— Lenny Moore

I love seeing my characters big up there and I would have liked to have reached a different public in movies from…

— David Suchet

Only let us love God, and then nature will compass us about like a cloud of Divine witnesses; and all influences from…

— William Mountford

I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned…

— J. Reuben Clark

My greatest influences are actually probably a set of different teachers. And these teachers, most prominently at my high school, but also…

— Reid Hoffman

I love the way you smile, it relieves my worries, hung-ups and hurts!

— Anonymous

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed?

— Arthur D. Hlavaty

“How do you say goodbye to the person who was the single greatest influence on who you are?”

— April Brookshire

One truly affectionate soul in a family will evert a sweetening and harmonizing influence upon all its members.

— Henry Van Dyke

Don't give up just because of what someone said. Use that as motivation push harder.

— Anonymous

Fellini was a little lofty for a teenage boy, but certainly he was a huge influence.

— John Waters

I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are…

— Will Compton

No matter how much it hurts now, one day you will look back and realize it changed your life for the better.

— Anonymous

Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest.

— Walter Savage Landor

I think the most dangerous influence for a young writer is to be treated with cynicism or discouragement.

— Jane Gardam

People say that I'm a bad influence, I say the world is already fucked, I'm just adding to it.

— Anonymous

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

— Albert Hadley

“A leader is a thorn in the flesh of oppressive people. They never feel comfortable when a leader stands up.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

We like to pile language on language. Hunter [ S. Thompson] was an influence on me, no doubt about it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Whether you believe in yourself or not has a immense impact on what you attempt in life.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke