Permanent Impact Quotes

Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.

Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

There's certain countries that you can't get in if you've got a criminal background record. There's certain jobs in the States that you can't get because you've got a criminal background record. That follows you the rest of your life... and that's something you have to deal with the rest of your life.

I'd rather lose large than win slightly. I think life is an oil painting, not a watercolor.

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

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

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

Being a mom has changed me forever.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.

Having cancer does make you try to be better at everything you do and enjoy every moment. It changes you forever. But it can be a positive change.

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years.

Once you're famous you can't go back.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

Becoming a vampire is forever. You don't get to change your mind about it later. For me, I think that's one of the big drawbacks with anything that's permanent. How do you know how you're going to feel in five years or 10 years? Even with a tattoo.

I always tend to tilt dark on an ending, because I feel like, especially with horror movies, those are the endings that don't evaporate. Those are the ones that stick with you.

Everybody says marriage is 'til death do you part - and I've been married 29 years - but a book is really 'til death do you part. Once you write it, it's out there.

She defaced my fly. And I've never been the same since.

The thing my father was proudest of was the Ayres clock at the intersection of Washington Street and Meridian. That made him so happy. Ayres complained because he wouldn't send them a bill. There was stuff my family had done there - particularly my father and grandfather - that was quite permanent and wonderful.

Once you have been touched by magic, you are forever changed. You leave a trail.

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Certain experiences you never forget, no matter how old you become.