Effectors Example Quotes & Sayings

I believe,' Muswell once said, 'that mental isolation is the essence of weird fiction. Isolation when confronted with disease, with madness, with horror and with death. These are the reverberations of the infinity that torments us.
("The White Hands") — Mark Samuels

Uncle Fitzy!" the girl yells. "Gingersnap is being bad!" Eisenhower hates it when she calls him Gingersnap. He complains about it with a statesman's pomp: "Gentlemen, there exists no more odious appellation than"
nose crumpling, black lips curling
"Gingersnap."
From The Barn at the End of Our Term — Karen Russell

Giving one another the rather embarrassed grins of people who know that they've just been part of a synchronized making-a-fool-of-yourself team. — Terry Pratchett

When not working, I use a lot of treatments; from ancient casero - honey, avocado, stuff like that - other times, I buy ones you leave on for a few minutes. I don't blow dry my hair ever unless for work; I'd rather go for the natural look. — Kate Del Castillo

It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance. — Ina May Gaskin

Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement. — Qiu Miaojin

The unity of a great era is generally an illusion. — Harold Bloom

In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind. — Henri Poincare

I believe people have a right to know what's going on with their information and how it's collected, how it's stored and who gets it. — Al Franken

Everywhere one seeks to produce meaning, to make the world signify, to render it visible. We are not, however, in danger of lacking meaning; quite the contrary, we are gorged with meaning and it is killing us. — Jean Baudrillard

There are evils . . . that men inflict upon one another, such as tyrannical domination of some of them over others. - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, III, 2 — Joel L. Kraemer

Do you trust me?"
She could still hear him, through flesh and noise.
"I love you!" she shouted.
It wasn't the answer he'd expected or the she'd expected to give. It was the wrong time, the wrong thing to say, but her answer lit a fire in his eyes. — Dawn Metcalf

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred ... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages. — Paul Engle

There are pieces of you that will always be with me. — Nicole Garcia

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility. — Joseph Conrad