Effects Quotes - Page 5

• Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most literary of all great pictures, one of the few of which the effect may largely be conveyed - can even be enhanced - by description.

  Kenneth Clark

  Drama, Long, May

  Kenneth Clark (1988). “Leonardo da Vinci”, Viking Pr

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• When profit diminishes, merchants are very apt to complain that trade decays; though the diminution of profit is the natural effect of its prosperity, or of a greater stock being employed in it than before.

  Adam Smith

  Complaining, Decay, Prosperity

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.60, Harriman House Limited

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• It is the natural effect of improvement, however, to diminish gradually the real price of almost all manufactures.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Improvement, Natural

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Wealth of Nations: the Great Master”, p.283, VM eBooks

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• The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or bad; it just keeps flowing. Some people go down to the river and they cry. Some people go down to the river and they are happy, but the river doesn't care; it just keeps flowing. We can use it and enjoy it, or we can jump in and drown. The river just keeps flowing because it is impersonal, and so it is with the universe. The universe that we live in can support us or destroy us. It's our interpretation and use of the laws that determine our effects or results.

  Robert Anthony

  Law, Rivers, People

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• The liberal reward of labour, therefore, as it is the affect of increasing wealth, so it is the cause of increasing population. To complain of it, is to lament over the necessary effect and cause of the greatest public prosperity.

  Adam Smith

  Population, Complaining, Rewards

  Adam Smith (2010). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

  John Wesley

  Giving Up, Belief, Witchcraft

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• There is thus a certain plausibility to Nietzsche's doctrine, though it is dynamite. He maintains in effect that the gulf separating Plato from the average man is greater than the cleft between the average man and a chimpanzee.

  Walter Kaufmann

  Plato, Men, Average

  Walter Kaufmann (2008). “Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist”, p.151, Princeton University Press

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• Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.

  Graham Greene

  Writing, Hands, Annoyed

  Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.44, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Destiny, Hands, Missing

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1972). “Transparent things: a novel”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.

  Richard Cecil

  Men, Mind, Trying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The status quo is a product of our culture or our culture is a product of the status quo - I'm sure which is the effect and which is the product - there is probably a feedback loop there that is mutually reinforcing. But we have a culture that says "Hey, look around. This place called Earth was created for you and you can do anything you want with it."

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Culture, Looks

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• I believe that the physical effect, the physical set, whenever you can, is ten times better than the digital effect.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Believe, Digital, Ten

  Source: screenrant.com

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• The creation of the island, or the impression of the island, as it changes in the mind of the character also came in to play... there was another very important collaborator, Rob Legato, on special visual effects. And then ultimately there's Thelma Schoonmaker, who keeps me focused during the editing of the picture.

  Martin Scorsese

  Character, Islands, Editing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think.

  Ridley Scott

  Wine, Thinking, California

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I feel that so many sci-fi films and films in general have just become really dependent on and addicted to CGI, and that some of the big CGI films of the summer, you see these effects that look like crap. You don't know if you're watching a cartoon or something that's real. And I didn't want to fall into that trap. I really thought there was a way to use a lot of these old techniques to do some new and really neat stuff.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Summer, Real, Fall

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2006.

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• It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

  Aphex Twin

  Clever, Emotional, Should Have

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.

  Al Gore

  Taken, Fire, Ice

  ""What in the Hell Do They Think Is Causing It?"". Interview with John Dickerson, www.slate.com. December 8, 2009.

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• I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.

  Roman Polanski

  Sometimes, Wonder, Cry

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• When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.

  Gavin Turk

  Artist, College, Found Objects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The thing I'm absolutely convinced of, no matter how crazy - technological the world is getting, is that people feel more connected through the good works. Entertainment, and the sort of soporific effect it has on people and their stress, is one thing.

  Edward Norton

  Crazy, Stress, People

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• To be able to have an effect on someone's life is extraordinary .

  Lindsay Lohan

  Able, Life Is, Extraordinary

  "Behind-The-Scenes with Lindsay Lohan". Interview with Lauren Hutton, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 7, 2009.

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• What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.

  Michael Caine

  Writing, Special, Looks

  Ivnterview with Ken P., www.ign.com. March 18, 2003.

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• I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

  Marge Piercy

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• I love the balls-to-the-walls rule-breaking approach the Beatles had in the studio (which I emulate), although I don't try to make my songs "sound" like their songs. But every time I crank a knob of some piece of equipment, or plug an instrument into the "wrong" amp/effect, I am channeling the Beatles.

  Alan Cohen

  Song, Wall, Trying

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• We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

  David McCullough

  Suffering, Stories, Who We Are

  Source: www.neh.gov

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