The Exorcist' is amazing because it recognizes that silences can be as powerful as sound effects. — Frank Darabont Copy Share Image
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen. — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
He who neglects what is done for what ought to be done, sooner effects his ruin than his preservation. — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
There is no effect without a cause. Chiropractors adjust causes. Others treat effects. — B. J. Palmer Copy Share Image
The president's rattling the saber and beating the drums may have an effect. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it,… — Charlton Laird Copy Share Image
I'm not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Oh, fatherhood has a very humanising effect on a bloke like me in the military. As a dad, you become absolutely aware… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Obamacare takes effect in less than eight months. Do you realize what this means? If you go to the emergency room now,… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to… — Matthias Schoenaerts Copy Share Image
Pain is inevitable. It is actually a great opportunity for growth, but when we blame or fail to take responsibility for our… — Romany Malco Copy Share Image
We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Indeed, a report from the United Nations has revealed that the livestock industry is the number-one contributor to global warming gasses -… — Karen Dawn Copy Share Image
Right now, the technological world plus God or spirituality is evolving. I think America has become a little bit too corrupt, government's… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
New directions in science are launched by new tools much more often than by new concepts. The effect of a concept-driven revolution… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Millennial voters are very concerned about climate change and will vote for candidates who are planning to address it. But the systems… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses… — Mary Barnett Gilson Copy Share Image
Grandeur of effect is produced by two different ways which seem entirely opposed to each other. One is by reducing the colors… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Your closest relationships are often the ones that have the most effect on you, but they are frequently the ones most difficult… — Richard Moss Copy Share Image
Any form of corporal punishment or 'spanking' is a violent attack upon another human being's integrity. The effect remains with the victim… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
LSD was my "wonder child", we had a positive reaction from everywhere in the world. Around two thousand publications about it appeared… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
Why do some die and some live? The answer was clearly, that on the whole the best fitted live. From the effects… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
After years of study and personal on-site investigation of UFO reports, I am certain that there is more than ample high-quality observational… — Raymond E. Fowler Copy Share Image
An immense effect may be produced by small powers wisely and steadily directed. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The sexual orientation of my parents has had zero effect on the content of my character. — Zach Wahls Copy Share Image
Whenever I see pointless use of special effects, I reach for something else. — Ken Stott Copy Share Image
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop. — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
Brain damage and stupidity are very different things, but can have similar effects on the wearer. — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace Copy Share Image
The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates. — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
...a disposition is an unsatisfactory thing unless we give it practical effect - deeds show dispositions. — Gregory of Nazianzus Copy Share Image
