Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Drew

Money buys access; access buys influence.

The opinion was that he was not under the influence.

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

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

Ace Frehley

If I had known I would influence so many guitarists, I would have practiced more.

Deepak Chopra

The science only perpetuates the vicious cycle of cronyism, power-mongering, influence peddling, corruption, bureaucracy, all of that.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Clay Aiken

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

Clint Eastwood

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Rita Ora

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Robert Holden

The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Stewart Brand

We can influence the future but not see it.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Maya Angelou

Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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.

Nick Flynn

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

Martin Short

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

Michael Chabon

All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.

Louis Kahn

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

Love is everything. It is the key to life, and its influences are those that move the world.

Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.

Bryan Robson

I don't think it influenced the game, but the referee should have started the match without them.

I don't think it's ever been about Cheney's staff. It's about him. Cheney's influence has always been his own.

I don't think it's ever been about Cheney's staff, ... It's about him. Cheney's influence has always been his own.

If it weren't for Sean, I don't think there would be a triathlon club. There wouldn't have been enough influence to get it done.

He was an influence. I think there would be a lot of people in this town at that time and still to this day, who would say that if Earl had been the coach, we never would have had a championship team.

Billy Sherwood

I was so influenced by Yes then that things started to sound very much like Yes.