#flu

A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#fluent #her #like #mother #only

Bud Powell's probably the biggest influence on my piano playing. ↗

— Matthew Shipp

#biggest influence #bud #influence #piano #playing

One of my great influences was Don Knotts as Barney Fife. ↗

— Martin Short

#fife #great #influences

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#compete #extreme #find #games #go

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. ↗

— Nate Silver

#influence #same #system #trying #want

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have? ↗

— Ron Silver

#influence #little #lose #office #run

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#biggest influence #books #comic #comic books #continue

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them. ↗

— Frank Sinatra

#flunked #fond #i #like #men

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. ↗

— Peter Singer

#affluence #back #countries #developed #developed countries

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses. ↗

— Josef Skvorecky

#book #even #every #everyone #exception