John Corey Whaley Quotes

You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.

Sooner or later the public will forget you; the memory of you will fade. What's important are the individuals you've influenced along the way.

I once heard someone on a bus say that this guy had gotten under her skin. And it struck me as a remarkable thought - that someone would affect you so deeply they'd always be a part of you.

No woman has excited "passions" among women more than I have. Yet I leave no school behind me.

Affecting the world is obviously possible when we see people in the world who we really love and respect and we see how that they affect our lives.

Your life is about everyone whose life you touch, and it is about the way in which you touch them.

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

Each of us bears the imprint of a friend met along the way; In each the trace of each.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.

'Empire of the Sun' is one of the films that I often think about. I think it had a profound effect on me when I first watched it as a teenager.

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

The movie had a much bigger impact on me than I ever thought that it did.

When somebody says, 'I don't like your cover'... that's fair enough, but then this person has just written to me and said that they've come out to their family because of my interpretation. So I've got to balance everything. And yeah... that warms my heart.

The show impacted our lives immediately. It is crazy. I can't watch the show. I get weirded out.

People are going to forget that I won a Super Bowl, but they're never going to forget the kind of impact you had on them personally.

Get yourself out of the way, and let Joy have more space.

I left my mark on that man.

You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.

Your impact on the world is significant whether or not you are aware of it, and even whether or not you desire it.

There are many people that we meet in our lives. But only a very few will make a lasting impression on our minds and hearts.

What you leave behind is the people you loved. You leave yourself in them.

Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets, holes in hearts...in negative space.

Wheather it is conscious or not, you eventually make the decision to divide your life in half - before and after - with loss being that tight bubble in the middle. You can move around in spite of it; you can laugh and smile and carry on with your life, but all it takes is one slow range of motion, a doubling over, to be fully aware of the empty space at your center.