The experiential test of whether this art is great or good, or minor or abysmal is the effect it has on your… — Wendy Beckett Copy Share Image
Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and… — David Icke Copy Share Image
This is the great truth life has to teach us ... that gratification of our individual desires and expression of our personal… — Hortense Odlum Copy Share Image
I have always known that writing fiction had little effect on the world; that if it did, young men would not have… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla… — Roger Hilsman Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Both in their origins and effects, boredom and stuffy air resemble each other. They are usually generated whenever a large number of… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The best time to write is when your life is in the toilet. Writing offers an escape from your problems, so if… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
When I work, I'm thinking in terms of purely visual effects and relations, and any verbal equivalent is something that comes afterwards.… — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
You don't want people to look at something and think that was a fantastic special effect. — Gale Anne Hurd Copy Share Image
In Lullabies, I wanted to capture what I remembered of the drunken babbling of unfortunate twelve-year-olds: their illusions, their ludicrously bad choices,… — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect. — Ovid Copy Share Image
The most important thing is that you have to have the visual effects working for you, instead of you working for the… — David Heyman Copy Share Image
In many instances, LSD actually produced terrifying and deleterious effects instead of beneficial effects, because of misuse, because it was a profanation. — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its… — Gail Devers Copy Share Image
Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power. — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
I'm one dude that writes his adlibs. I don't just go in there and say "Gimme a track." I say what I'ma… — Schoolboy Q Copy Share Image
