Anyone that has character leaves a mark on another. Would you like to leave the world without making a ripple?
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
I got involved with classical music when I was in high school and it's followed me throughout my entire life and probably had a profound effect on my life.
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
You are in every line I have ever read.
If we can take young people who excel at the highest levels, put them on the same kind of pedestal as the all-state basketball player and the all-state football player, and begin to get the same kind of recognition, it will have a profound effect, and we are finding that it does.
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.
I'd like to end up sort of unforgettable.
What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.
A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
Writing, real writing, should leave a small sweet bruise somewhere on the writer . . . and on the reader.
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.
Certain things leave you in your life and certain things stay with you. And that's why we're all interested in movies- those ones that make you feel, you still think about. Because it gave you such an emotional response, it's actually part of your emotional make-up, in a 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.
I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.
'The Fall' changed my life - that's not an overstatement.
If you want to be good at anything, you have to work hard at it. It doesn't just fall from the sky. I work every day at trying to improve my writing, and I really enjoy it. Nothing fascinates me more than putting words together, and seeing how a collection of words can produce quite a profound effect.
Drag Race' has changed my career and life profoundly.
Nietzsche says that as soon as he had read a single page of Schopenhauer, he knew he would read every page of him and pay heed to every word, even to the errors he might find. Every intellectual aspirant will be able to name men whom he has read in this way.
Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
