Refused/influences

Famous quotes containing the words refused and/or influences:

    I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
    Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

    The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
    Max Lerner (b. 1902)