#influences

A year or so ago I went through all the people in my life and asked myself: does this person inspire me, genuinely love me and support me unconditionally? I wanted nothing but positive influences in my life. ↗

— Mena Suvari

#ago #asked #does #genuinely #i

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#also #crazy #different #era #influences

There are always different influences each season. It could be a person, it could be a piece of furniture; it depends on what I'm obsessing about. ↗

— Anna Sui

#always #could #depends #different #each

Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#account #being #certain #every #existence

You never know where your influences are going to come from, or where you're going to find your inspiration. ↗

— Page McConnell

#find #going #influences #inspiration #know

The essential attribute of a new sense is, not the perception of external objects or influences which ordinarily do not act upon the senses, but that external causes should excite in it a new and peculiar kind of sensation different from all the sensations of our five senses. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#attribute #causes #different #essential #excite

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me. ↗

— GG Allin

#heroes #i #influences #just #me

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jazz players. I liked Clapton when he was with John Mayall. I really liked that period. ↗

— Tony Iommi

#basically #blues #clapton #early #english

As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#life

For there is no creature whose inward being is so strong that it is not greatly determined by what lies outside it. ↗

— George Eliot

#influences #life #thoughts #life