Effect Quotes

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There is a rowdy strain in American life, living close to the surface but running very deep. Like an ape behind a mask, it can… — Bruce Catton
A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In… — John Steinbeck
Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier… — Arthur Miller
An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy… — Ayn Rand
The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity,… — Mary McCarthy
Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup… — Frederic Raphael
Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect. — Pierre Corneille
In my worst moments, I think the biggest effect of 'Eats, Shoots & Leaves' was to kill the happiness of people who had previously skipped… — Lynne Truss
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous… — Pema Chodron
The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see… — Lionel Trilling
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such… — Hermann Ebbinghaus
There's always an imbalance with actors and actresses in the industry. And I think because there are just fewer movies overall being made, it's that… — Michelle Pfeiffer
If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that… — Brian Eno
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that love is a… — Louis Sullivan
People I meet today, especially journalists who interview me, are astonished to hear that Lenin told me, in effect, that Communism was not working and… — Armand Hammer
I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't. — Jack Dee
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. — Jon Lord
Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease. — Mary Ann Mobley
I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them. — Samantha Morton
The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every… — Victoria Moran

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