Effect Quotes

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I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good… — Jack Handey
The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner… — Mark Twain
If you want to understand the effect of weight on a horse, try running for a bus with nothing in your hands. Then try doing… — Jenny Pitman
Music has the power of producing a certain effect on the moral character of the soul, and if it has the power to do this,… — Aristotle
There's a certain secret every actor must have in his work. If you reveal it, you're letting the audience in on the wrinkles and convolutions… — Frank Langella
When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up… — George Bernard Shaw
A flop is often the result of the fact that each of the talents involved, while working on the same project, may in effect have… — Ethan Mordden
The missionaries of Christianity had said in effect: You have no right to live among us as Jews. The secular rulers who followed had proclaimed:… — Raul Hilberg
EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the… — Ambrose Bierce
There are times when I think that the reading I have done in the past has had no effect except to cloud my mind and… — Robertson Davies
"With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow… — Stephen Hawking
Next time you're stunned by a large moon on the horizon, bend over and view it between your legs. The effect goes away entirely. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The answer was that in Burundi, having a clean bill of health has taken on a very particular meaning: unless and until you have paid… — Rowan Williams
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it… — Clive Barker
The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the… — G. Edward Griffin
I'm not sure what Essiac does to extend cancer survival, and for all we know it may not have this effect. On the other hand,… — Abram Hoffer
Cancer can be attacked directly by metabolic enzymes and then be assisted by the enzyme diet programme. The second greatest cancer breakthrough of the 20th… — Benjamin Carson
Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed. — P.J. O'Rourke
As the cause is, so the effect will be Cause is never different from effect, the effect is but the cause reproduced in another form. — Swami Vivekananda
No effect of work can be eternal. — Swami Vivekananda

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