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.

As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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

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.

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

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

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

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.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

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.

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.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.

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.