Cassandra Clare Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
Hal Sparks -
Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
Tayari Jones -
I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Power is a tool, influence is a skill; one is a fist, the other a fingertip.
Nancy Gibbs -
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
Pablo Neruda -
The discourse of the West and the attitudes of its leaders are important because they influence public debate in Turkey.
Safak Pavey
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley -
If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
Gary Hume -
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Ed Koch -
For me, having come to study and understand some of the Bible and finally getting saved made a huge difference in me, because my wife was a big influence on that. I saw in her, when I first met her, a person's soul at peace with everything and everybody around her.
Randy Travis -
I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.
Carl Sandburg -
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
Umberto Eco
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The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.
Caitriona Balfe -
Joseph Warren, like a lot of revolutionary leaders, was into Enlightenment literature.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.
Washington Irving -
I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
Gary Shteyngart -
Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
Oliver Sim The xx -
Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.
Taylor Swift
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To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
Somebody is trying to kill all the kernel developers.
Linus Torvalds -
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer -
The garden, historically, is the place where all the senses are exploited. Not just the eye, but the ear - with water, with birds. And there is texture, too, in plants you long to touch.
William Howard Adams -
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
Cassandra Clare