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
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us.… — William Boyd 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
Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
There is no effort to acknowledge some equivalent accountability by associating "terrorism" with all violence that is deliberately aimed at civilians, either… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can't be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass,… — Austin Dacey Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
There is no significant man-made global warming at this time, there has been none in the past and there is no reason… — John Coleman Copy Share Image
No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere,… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
My whole philosophy is working smarter and not harder. And making sure I'm using little effort and getting a huge effect. — Anthony Pettis Copy Share Image
So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.… — Adam Shankman Copy Share Image
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
The rich will strive to establish their dominion and enslave the rest. They always did...they always will. They will have the same… — Gouverneur Morris Copy Share Image
We need to take our passion and effect real change at the local, state, and federal levels, to help elect progressive leaders,… — George Takei Copy Share Image
The other was the best recovered in his condition; and being now pretty well, was appointed nurse to the rest of the… — James Lind Copy Share Image
Every movement in the market is the result of a natural law and of a Cause which exists long before the Effect… — William Delbert Gann Copy Share Image
It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of… — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was… — Armand Hammer Copy Share Image
I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
The more I view the independence of the press in its principal effects, the more I convince myself that among the moderns… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Without the aesthetic, the computer is but a mindless speed machine, producing effects without substance, form without relevant content, or content without… — Paul Rand Copy Share Image
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
...All the wonders of our universe can in effect be captured by simple rules, yet ... there can be no way to… — Stephen Wolfram Copy Share Image
I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
I maintain that inversion is the effect of neither a prenatal choice nor an endocrinal malformation nor even the passive and determined… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in… — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Copy Share Image
I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling… — Amy Hempel Copy Share Image
I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy,… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Capablanca's play produced and still produces an irresistable artistic effect. In his games a tendency towards simplicity predominated, and in this simplicity… — Mikhail Botvinnik Copy Share Image
The ill effects of thought come about when we forget that thought is a function of our consciousness... an ability that we… — Richard Carlson Copy Share Image
Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect. — Edgar Cayce Copy Share Image
The transcendent importance of love and good-will in all human relationships is shown by their mighty beneficent effect upon the individual and… — George David Birkhoff Copy Share Image