Tv Influence Quotes

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

Let no man imagine that he has no influence.

When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.

Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.

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

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.

Oscar Peterson is the greatest living influence on jazz pianists today.

I know that the Bible has been a central influence in [Elie Wiesel and Frank Moore Cross] lives - but in a very different way. In truth, you inhabit very different Biblical worlds.

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.

Past and present, it is all the same, books are necromancers, they exercise an influence more varied, more lasting, than any magic known to man.

Joy, grief, desire or fear, whate'er the name The passion bears, its influence is the same; Where things exceed your hope or fall below, You stare, look blank, grow numb from top to toe.

Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?

I knew how to influence the people, but it's really just one vote. But the party is being handled in a very good way .

I'm not ruling. I never ruled. I have one vote and I'm the leader of the party. I've always had a vote on the central committee. I always had more influence than that one vote. I'll admit that.

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

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.

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

I really like Calvin Klein for his classic simplicity. I also think Prabal Gurung designs some great pieces that work well for me. My mom has such great style she's my biggest influence.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish.

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

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

My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.

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.

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

Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.

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.

Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.

Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.

Power and courtly influence form an intoxicating draught even when raised to the lips of an ascetic and a saint.

Indeed the influence of music on the development of religion is a subject which would repay a sympathetic study.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because of those filmmakers' influence on the industry].

I never went to church a day in my life. The dominant religion (influence) in my family was my grandfather who was a Scientologist.

Everything in life influences my music.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

What's interesting is the populace movement of fundamentalism is starting to mirror that approach that elite fundamentalism has long had of trying to have influence across the political spectrum.

Frustration and I have become good friends. And like any friend who's a bad influence, frustration sometimes makes me do things that are, in retrospect, stupid. - Sirensong

When you're making a movie, you feel like a very small part of something that you really don't have much influence upon. You roll in, you do your thing, and then you're gone.

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

For women, I take inspiration from strong women with good aesthetics and integrity, and a little tomboy influence.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.