I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written. — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
That which we say and do, if its effects last not beyond our lives, is unimportant. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
What the [James] Monroe Doctrine stated, in effect, is that the US should dominate the hemisphere. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I think audiences have hit the wall with CGI and special effects. They have seen so many over-the-top events that they can't… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and… — Jacob Bigelow Copy Share Image
I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content… — Alexander Shulgin Copy Share Image
The very first pharmaceutical commercial I ever heard was 15 seconds of the product and 45 seconds of side effects, so I… — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
INTENTION, n. The mind's sense of the prevalence of one set of influences over another set; an effect whose cause is the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
You want us to step in and render a decision based on an assessment of the effects of this institution which is… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
Sometimes the guys who run the visual effects shop will bury it in and not tell us. We'll be in the middle… — Greg Berlanti Copy Share Image
Fathers and mothers, do not forget that children learn more by the eye than they do by the ear... Imitation is a… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Food conditions the nature of the mind. Mind guides the thinking. Thinking results in action. Actions lead to commensurate or matching results… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Poetry, unlike music, is a meta-art, and relies upon non-physical structures for the production of its effects. In its case, the medium… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
Pure photography allows us to create portraits which render their subjects with absolute truth, truth both physical and psychological. That is the… — August Sander Copy Share Image
The fact that a belief has a good moral effect upon a man is no evidence whatsoever in favor of its truth.… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect.… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
I've seen films that have made as much as $100, $200 million, but they're not films. They're images. They're flashes. They're many… — Sergio Leone Copy Share Image
Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
After years spent trying to deal with the effects of COINTELPRO, my rage at the FBI's almost unimaginable evil remains undiminished because… — William Kunstler Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
I find it expressed in various passages of Scripture that the fact that God knows things while in a state of possibility,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If there be any who nurture in their hearts the poisonous brew of enmity toward another, I plead with you to ask… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
At the moment, it actually says nothing about a possible cosmic-ray effect on clouds and climate, but it's a very important first… — Rolf-Dieter Heuer Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image