Quotes on Effect

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Author: Gerry Adams

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

Author: Jack Adams

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

Author: John Adams

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

Author: Avi Arad

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

Author: Charles Babbage

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Author: Thomas Babington

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Author: Adrian Belew

We have to make it clear that one, two or even three BNP MEPs elected to Brussels will have very little effect on the workings of the Parliament and the Commission.

Author: Steve Blake

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.

Author: Uwe Boll

In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not always coincide with that which we occupy in thinking of its whole dramatic effect.

Author: Andrew Bradley

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

Author: Bill Brandt

I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.

Author: Andre Braugher

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

Author: Wilfred Burchett

A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.

Author: Warren Burger

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Author: Edmund Burke

Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.

Author: Arvid Carlsson

Gravity is one variable in a lot of scientific processes. If you can remove gravity or minimize its effect, then you can understand the other processes that are going on.

Author: Laurel Clark

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Author: Jean Cocteau

I had in effect a user base eager to buy porn but no one to sell it to them.

Author: Benjamin Cohen

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Author: Pierre Corneille

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

Author: Ezra Cornell

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Author: Lord Dunsany

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

Author: George Eliot

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Author: George Eliot

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

Author: Terence Fisher

The language fictional characters use is chosen for effect, at least if the author is concentrating.

Author: John Ford

If we say that anyone who "moralizes" must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.

Author: Jonah Goldberg

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

Author: Stone Gossard

I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

Author: Graham Greene

I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.

Author: Zane Grey

The spirals of the helix should be as nearly approximated as possible, as each aids by its heat that of its neighbour, or rather diminishes the cooling effect of the gaseous atmosphere.

Author: William Grove

In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect.

Author: Chico Hamilton

As to the effect of the wave on the air, we will suppose the water to be quite flat and the air motionless, a heavy undulation comes on the scene, it has to pass, so it pushes the air up with its face, letting it fall again as its back glides onwards.

Author: Lawrence Hargrave

With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem.

Author: Thomas Harrison

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Author: Claude Helvetius

You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.

Author: Jack Herer

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Author: Paul Hindenburg

The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise.

Author: Gerard Hopkins

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

Author: Jay Inslee

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

Author: Washington Irving

I could have done a hundred songs, really. It was hard to narrow them down, because I tried to pick songs for the most part that actually did have some effect on me or influenced me in the past.

Author: Alan Jackson

Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world.

Author: Penn Jillette

The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast.

Author: Charles Keating

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Author: Ellen Key

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Author: John Lennon

It seems incontrovertible to me that there is a global warming effect and that it is going to be serious, probably not in the amount of, say, six degrees warming, but it's likely that we'll get two to three degrees warming and that will be serious enough.

Author: Bjorn Lomborg

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

Author: Thomas Macaulay

One effect that the Nobel Prize seems to have had is that more Arabic literary works have been translated into other languages.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

Author: Alfred Marshall

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

Author: Thomas Merton

I believed in realism, as summarized by John McCarthy's comment to the effect that if we worked really hard, we'd have an intelligent system in from four to four hundred years.

Author: Marvin Minsky

We can no longer stand for the Security Council passing resolutions and then in effect heaving alongside and taking a vacation. We cannot leave it to the secretary general to go cap in hand.

Author: Alex Morrison

My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.

Author: Philip Morrison

Neil's effect on the band was immediate and very fulfilling. He adds a certain edge to the sound and, of course, he is an incredible musician. We became a better band because of the inclusion of Neil Young.

Author: Graham Nash

I wasn't thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

Author: Graham Nash

In addition to a soaring stock market, 6.6 million jobs have been created since tax relief measures went into effect in 2003. Our deficit situation has also improved as tax revenues have increased at double-digit rates over the past two years.

Author: Randy Neugebauer

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

Author: Florence Nightingale

Nowadays, however, we recognize that simultaneously with the typical case of a chemical reaction a typical case of catalytic effect had been studied which constitutes a limiting case.

Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.

Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit.

Author: Ed Parker

You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to have for dinner. Whereas something like Jaws winds up having a huge effect on me. If only my parents had been taking me to Kurosawa films when I was eight, but no.

Author: Ann Patchett

But, on the other hand, the occasional and precarious dripping of coppers has by no means a genial effect.

Author: James Payn

The reality is that during the Reagan years, for instance, we doubled the amount of revenue that we were sending to Washington, D.C. after the tax cuts took effect.

Author: Mike Pence

A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

Author: William Petty

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

Author: Michael Porter

Few speeches which have produced an electrical effect on an audience can bear the colourless photography of a printed record.

Author: Archibald Primrose

If there's a severe recession, the automatic stabilizers will come into effect, and we will still try to reduce the structural deficit, but we will not try to keep cutting the budget so that we keep worsening a severe recession.

Author: Franklin Raines

I begin by considering an effect.

Author: Maurice Ravel

I like the effect drink has on me.

Author: Oliver Reed

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

Author: Christina Romer

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Author: George Ryan

It doesn't bother me that Seven has such an overtly sexual presence, because she has no concept of what effect that physical package would have on some male member of the crew. That's what's fun, her innocence.

Author: Jeri Ryan

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Author: Jose Saramago

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

Author: Gerhard Schroder

Based on the laws of physics, the effect on temperature of man's contribution to atmospheric CO2 levels is minuscule and indiscernible from the natural variability caused in large part by changes in solar energy output.

Author: Robert Scotto

All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way.

Author: Albert Speer

The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is nothing wrong with that.

Author: Mark Spitz

Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Author: Johannes Stark

I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit.

Author: Peter Steele

A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.

Author: Bruce Sterling

Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials.

Author: Meryl Streep

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Author: Algernon Sydney

Pronouncement of experts to the effect that something cannot be done has always irritated me.

Author: Leo Szilard

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill us, but you'll have to kill a lot of us; you may have to kill all of us. And, thank heaven, we are not yet ready to do that.

Author: George Wald

But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.

Author: Jim Walsh

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.

Author: Len Wein

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.

Author: William Westmoreland

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

Author: E. White