Effects Quote by Umberto Eco

It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.

— Anne Enright

Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual…

— Frederic Raphael

You have no idea the effect your words can have on people, every word can leave another scar,

— Sarah Moores

Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.

— Jim Rohn

“NOTE TO SELF – BOOMERANG EFFECT My words, thoughts and deeds have a boomerang effect. So be-careful what you send out!”

— Allan Rufus

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

— Mike Colter

Taking ideas seriously does not fit with the rhetorical style of textbooks, which presents events so as to make them seem foreordained along a…

— James W. Loewen

“That was a rhetorical question, one asked solely to produce an effect and not elicit a reply.”

— Paul Hoffman

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

The case for Brexit was made on rhetorical flourishes and promises and bluster. A lot of promises on which people voted have turned out…

— Jo Johnson

In late modernity we grow more and more accustomed to politicians and public figures who are indebted to their appetites for their "values," to…

— Kenny Smith

When scientists need to explain difficult points of theory, illustration by hypothetical example - rather than by total abstraction - works well (perhaps indispensably)…

— Stephen Jay Gould