Impact Quotes

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the Mediterranean winter storms on the rocks below.
Robert Fitzgerald

Work, Sea, Lucky

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
William Petersen

Good, Sports, Feeling

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
William Petersen

Life, Movies, Night

I just want to tell stories that have an impact on people. Somebody needs to have an impact because people are lost. People are really lost.
Rebecca De Mornay

Lost, Tell, Somebody

The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
Will McDonough

Wonderful, Pictures, Television

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a real impact in people's lives.
John M. McHugh

Real, Lives, Congress

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
Jose Padilha

Change, Society, Technology

The economic impact of illegal immigration on taxpayers is catastrophic.
Ric Keller

Economic, Illegal, Taxpayers

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.
Austan Goolsbee

Someone, Country, Big

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.
Russ Carnahan

Home, Country, Spring

If Iran does not change its policies, it won't be able to integrate into the international community and will become even more isolated than it is now, which likely will have a negative impact on the Iranian people.
Moshe Katsav

Change, Negative, Become

The artist that had the biggest impact on me was Michael Jackson. He was my Elvis and Beatles. When I was 15, I listened to a lot of Sinatra, but my jean jacket didn't have, 'I love Frank' on it, it had, 'I love AC/DC', 'Guns N Roses', 'Pearl Jam'. I thought Eddie Vedder was the second coming.
Michael Buble

Love, Thought, Artist

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
Larry Page

Work, Small, Working

I think the same way about theatre, you go out there and you are creating a world for a moment that can actually have a real impact on people, present some kind of story that gives you something to think about when you walk away, feeling enriched - if it works out well.
Jeffrey Jones

Feeling, Real, Same

I'm interested in the impact my movies have on people and how it affects them, and what they like and what they don't like - and what they take away from it. What leaves an impression, you know?
Thomas Jane

Movies, Away, Interested

The nominal budget is a poor indicator of the impact of government outlays and revenues.
William Vickrey

Government, Poor, Budget

The Watergate reforms did work well for many years, and if improved and broadened, these reforms can have real and major impact on the system today.
Elliot Richardson

Work, Today, Real

People are beginning to understand there is nothing in the world so remote that it can't impact you as a person. It's not just diseases. Economists are now beginning to say if we are going to have good markets in Africa, we're going to have to have healthy people in Africa.
William Foege

Good, Nothing, Person

For much of this decade, both Congressional and administration budget projections showed a decline in science and technology accounts of between 20 and 30 percent in real dollars. The real impact to date has been far less severe.
Charles Vest

Science, Technology, Real

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.
Andrew Lo

Fear, Finance, Greed

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.
Dana Spiotta

Music, Movies, Learned

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.
Lee R. Raymond

Business, Important, Real

If we can produce more ethanol and bio-diesel to help fuel our vehicles, we will create jobs, boost local economies and produce cleaner burning fuels. This will keep dollars here at home where they can have a positive impact on our economy.
Rick Renzi

Home, Positive, Help

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.
George Stephen

Writing, Quite, Teenager

Hip-hop is all about impact, baby. You can sell records, you can be two-times platinum, you can be gold... but if you lame, you lame, man. We try to provide the exact opposite of that. It's style, individuality, confidence. We exude that.
Wale

Confidence, Try, Baby

The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me.
Robert T. Bakker

Life, History, Strong

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.
Chris Cornell

Through, Become, Start

I would like the Medical Society to be one of the resources for information about the influences that have an impact on our patients and our practices.
Samuel Wilson

Society, Medical, Resources

Pickett's lines being nearer, the impact was heaviest upon them.
James Longstreet

Lines, Heaviest, Nearer

As for the expected boon to the Mexican economy, we have seen none of these gains, and instead we have seen NAFTA's detrimental impact on the Mexican workers.
Stephen F. Lynch

Seen, Economy, Workers

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