Influence Quote by Walter Isaacson

“he was able to turn charm into a cunning force, to cajole and distort reality with the power of his personality.”

— Walter Isaacson

“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating and inaccessible,…

— Simona Panova

“For fortune having hitherto seconded him in his designs, made him resolute and firm in his opinions, and the boldness of his temper raised…

— Plutarch

“Though never losing his taste for seclusion, he developed a talent for getting on with people in all walks of life, and those who…

— Anthony Stevens

“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”

— Amit Kalantri

“There was an undeniable charm about the man, not merely the youthful airs of one who hadn’t seen the worst the world has to…

— V.E. Schwab

“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should guess that…

— C.P. Snow

“I learned that you could so fully inhabit a character that you could fool others, move others. With talent and commitment, you could seduce…

— Bryan Cranston

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams

“Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his…

— Ken Follett

“His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast…

— James Joyce

“He had been too successful, you see; his was that solitude of contempt and distrust which success brings to him who gained it because…

— William Faulkner