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• 1844 - Henri Rousseau
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  Cause and effect the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them.

  Charles Bukowski

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Understand, Hand

• When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I’m just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.

  Ira Glass

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in People, Effect, Something

• Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side – apparently your left side is your mother – which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I’m easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.

  Imelda Staunton

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Comforted, Think

• That was the big effect Lord of the Rings had on me. It was discovering New Zealand. And even more precious were the people- not at all like the Australians.

  Ian McKellen

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Discovering, Precious

• The moral effect of the thundering of one’s own artillery is most extraordinary, and many of us thought that we had never heard any more welcome sound than the deep roaring and crashing that started in at our rear.

  Fritz Kreisler

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Thought, Extraordinary

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

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Effect, Wrong

• Indeed; peace literature is almost exclusively read, though to good effect, by pacifists, while what is needed is the canvassing of those who have not so far been won to the cause.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Pacifists, Good

• In America you can say anything you want – as long as it doesn’t have any effect.

  Paul Goodman

  Topics in America

  Tags in Effect

• Because just as arms have no force outside if there is no counsel within a house, study is vain and counsel useless that is not put to virtuous effect when the time calls.

  Francois Rabelais

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Study, Effect, Counsel

• It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is ‘soporific’.

  Beatrix Potter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect

• It will take a long time for women’s effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

  Florence E. Allen

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Effect, Appraise

• They say 6 million people see you when you act in a film; it may only be 600 in a play. But the effect on the 600 may be truer and more lasting.

  Cyril Cusack

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Effect, Act

• The Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, was put into effect on January 1, 1863, but news of the Proclamation and enforcement did not reach Texas until after the end of the Civil War almost two years later.

  Corrine Brown

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Emancipation, President, Effect

• Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

  George Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Cruelty, Effect

• I don’t start a piece knowing exactly what effect it’s going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

  Siobhan Davies

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect

• One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

  Colin Charles Greenwood

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Read

• There were challenges with production because of the special effects. There are just some things that, although written, special effects just isn’t able to do.

  Shawn Wayans

  Topics in Challenge

  Tags in Effect

• The whole kiss-and-tell thing is a negative approach that often happens in a World Cup. We will see negative stories about the players and it can affect their confidence and the overall performance of the national team on the pitch, let alone the bid to actually stage the competition.

  Gary Lineker

  Topics in Confidence

  Tags in Negative, Approach, Effect, Tournament

• When I was singing Jamie’s Cryin’, people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.

  Gary Cherone

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Self, Performances, Effect

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

  Claude Adrien Helvetius

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Effect, Like