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.
~By Thomas Harrison ~
It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.
~By Aly Khan ~
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
~By Bill Brandt ~
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
~By Dean Acheson ~
The dynamic, creative present, however conditioned and restricted by the effects of prior presents, possesses genuine initiative.
~By Corliss Lamont ~
In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.
~By Friedrich Durrenmatt ~
You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.
~By Marcus Allen ~
The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.
~By Sean Lennon ~
In order to spur economic growth we need to put the brakes on out of control spending, lower Ohioans tax burden and create a most efficient and effective government.
~By Kenneth Blackwell ~
The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
~By Victor Francis Hess ~
I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
~By Al Franken ~
We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
~By R. D. Laing ~
Science, which is not so attached to 'truth' as it once was, ut more to immediate 'effectiveness', is now drifting towards a decline, it's civic fall from grace.
~By Paul Virilio ~
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
~By Freeman Dyson ~
Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.
~By Sima Qian ~
That was fun to play. There were some nice special effects coupled with some really nice moments with child and wife. I also was able to age to about 100 years in 'Brief Candle.'
~By Richard Dean Anderson ~
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
~By Tony Robbins ~
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.
~By Enid Bagnold ~
Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy.
~By Mark Poster ~
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.
~By Pierre Bourdieu ~
It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
~By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps ~
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
~By Floyd Abrams ~
My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.
~By Robert B. Laughlin ~
My father is a well known artist, Ted Dyer, who has been painting for many years. Our work is very different, but growing up surrounded by paintings, paints, easels and art books does have an effect.
~By John Dyer ~
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
~By Helen Frankenthaler ~
I see so much more than I used to see. The effect has been to depress and sadden and hurt me terribly.
~By Zane Grey ~
Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.
~By John Deacon ~
I really believe that you could do horror very inexpensively. I don't think it has anything to do with the effects, the effects are not the most important parts.
~By George A. Romero ~
The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
~By Ida B. Wells ~
Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
~By Harold H. Greene ~
I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.
~By Herb Ritts ~
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.
~By Jack Adams ~
In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.
~By Joe Simon ~
Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.
~By Joseph Stalin ~
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.
~By Bjorn Lomborg ~
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
I don't want a lot of bureaucracy... I want to run state government the same way we run a campaign - efficient, effective and victorious.
~By Charlie Crist ~
They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.
~By James F. Cooper ~
If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.
~By David Davis ~
Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
~By Emanuel Swedenborg ~
Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.
~By Edmond Halley ~
As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
~By Lance Secretan ~
Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
~By James S. Coleman ~
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
~By Lord Dunsany ~
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
~By Paul Gallico ~
My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective.
~By Robert Ripley ~
The dwarfed trees of the Chinese and Japanese have been noticed by every author who has written upon these countries, and all have attempted to give some description of the method by which the effect is produced.
~By Robert Fortune ~
While we have entertained the contention that a deed may make more propaganda than hundreds of speeches, thousands of articles, and tens of thousands of pamphlets, we have held that an arbitrary act of violence will not necessarily have such an effect.
~By Johann Most ~
In a way, you might say that David Duke is the son of Willie Horton. Duke is more overt, of course, but he's really just pushing the same buttons and sending the same coded messages that the Horton ads did so effectively for the Bush campaign last year.
~By Judd Rose ~
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
~By Frank Herbert ~
The war effects me less than it ought. I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.
~By Wilfred Owen ~
If we say that anyone who "moralizes" must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize.
~By Jonah Goldberg ~
Strong men have sound ideas and the force to make these ideas effective.
~By Andrew Mellon ~
To be consistently effective, you must put a certain distance between yourself and what happens to you on the golf course. This is not indifference, it's detachment.
~By Sam Snead ~
The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.
~By Leo Burnett ~
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
~By Galen Rowell ~
Tough love - I'm kind of weary of that. I don't think it's so effective.
~By Marguerite Moreau ~
And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.
~By John Breaux ~
Advertising is speech. It's regulated because it's often effective speech.
~By Jef I. Richards ~
Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.
~By Danny Elfman ~
I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.
~By Umberto Eco ~
I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.
~By Billy Sunday ~
Israel is still the only country in the world against which there is a written document to the effect that it must disappear.
~By Menachem Begin ~
Concentrated serum albumin fractionated from blood plasma was effective in battlefield treatment of shock.
~By Paul D. Boyer ~
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
~By Philip Morrison ~
The American people should be informed about what kind of capability terrorists have inside the United States. They should be informed of why we are not using information to do a more effective job of dealing with terrorists.
~By Bob Graham ~
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.
~By George Cuvier ~
Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
~By Horace ~
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
~By Herbert Croly ~
An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
~By Ida P. Rolf ~
Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
~By Jonathan Carroll ~
People tend to work in teams, in a collaborative way, in an informal network. If you create an environment like that, it's much more effective and much more efficient.
~By Jim Mitchell ~
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
~By John Foster Dulles ~
Cinema is still a very young art form with extraordinary techniques and very impressive special effects but sometimes it seems the soul has been taken out of things.
~By Catherine Deneuve ~
The high price of health care in this country is a serious issue that demands serious attention. Putting limits on damages have little or no effect on skyrocketing malpractice insurance rates.
~By Mary Landrieu ~
That would be getting up at 5 am... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.
~By Terry Zwigoff ~
I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
~By Major Owens ~
Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.
~By Joseph Barber Lightfoot ~
Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
~By Thomas Merton ~
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
~By John Adams ~
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
~By Ben Bernanke ~
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.
~By Adrian Belew ~
When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
~By Lech Walesa ~
I'm not a good enough singer to pull off the effect.
~By Andre Braugher ~
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.
~By Lois Capps ~
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
We were only on orbit a little over two days, so we had no adverse effects from being weightless.
~By Robert Crippen ~
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.
~By Edmund Burke ~
More than 26,000 lives may be lost to the effects of drug abuse this year. This tragic impact is felt in communities across this great nation. Sadly many of these deaths occur among our young people.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
I really worked with icons in the music business, which really had a strong effect on me. It wasn't just pick-up gigs.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
You don't have to be noisy to be effective.
~By Phil Crosby ~
I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
~By Leon Theremin ~
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.
~By George Wald ~
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
~By Barbara Deming ~
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