Effect Quotes

There's a domino effect with certain things you say.

Any seeming deception in a statement is costly, not only in the expense of the advertising but in the detrimental effect produced upon the customer, who believes she has been misled.

I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform.

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

When you drop any new idea in the pond of the world, you get a ripple effect. You have to be aware that you will be creating a cascade of change.

If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

Every time new technology is introduced, especially involving reproduction, you get the 'yuck' effect.

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

You only need a few people to effect a kidnapping.

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.

And the annual meetings of the League's Assembly are in effect official peace congresses binding on the participating states to an extent that most statesmen a quarter of a century ago would have regarded as utopian.

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

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

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.

Every person's every action has an effect.

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.

The cause ceasing, the effect ceases also.

Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect.

Enquire what the effect of large endowments are upon colleges.

Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on the terrestrial quadrupeds than on the marine animals.

The mind is the effect, not the cause.

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.

Dance has a transformative effect on bodily trauma.

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

Twitter does have an effect on everything - things you put out there, they are out there for good.

In America you can say anything you want - as long as it doesn't have any effect.

The radio was an improvement on the telegraph but it didn't have the same exponential, transformative effect.

I'm not a theatrics guy who does things for effect. Whatever comes out is what I feel. It just comes out.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

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

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.

I don't dress for effect, and I think that it never works out when someone does.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

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

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

To believe in a just law of cause and effect, carrying with it a punishment or a reward, is to believe in righteousness.

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

I believe the anthropogenic effect for climate change is still only one of the hypotheses to explain the variability of climate.

I've been around some very famous people, but no one has the effect Maradona has; people tremble in his presence.

I've gotten to where my hair is like my onstage prop; I need to hide behind it and throw it around - it's my slo-mo effect.

The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion.

In fact any experiment that measures a quantum effect is one in which the quantum effect is aligned with the behavior of some heavy, macroscopic object; that's how we measure it.

All labour is directed towards producing some effect.

One area in which we can be certain mass immigration has an effect is housing. More than one third of all new housing demand in Britain is caused by immigration. And there is evidence that without the demand caused by mass immigration, house prices could be 10% lower over a 20-year period.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease.

What perhaps should receive more attention is the effect of the treatment on the virus.

Peace is a natural effect of trade.

The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.

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.

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.

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

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

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 trickle down effect.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.

It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.

I like the effect drink has on me.

Figuring out what to wear is much easier if you first think about what effect you want to create.

You can eliminate, for example, a Brazil nut gene if you know that it will create an allergenic effect.

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

One effect could be that the huge atomic arsenal created in the cold war could be reduced significantly.

Serial novels have an unexpected effect; they hook the writer as well as the reader.

Every cause produces more than one effect.

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

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

The stock market has an insidious effect on C.E.O.s' moods, because of its impact not just on their companies but on their own bank accounts.

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

Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

The more easily digestible and refined the carbohydrates, the greater the effect on our health, weight and well-being.

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

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

The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.