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"Severity is allowable where gentleness has no effect."

Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist

Effect,

"Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality."

John Lennon, English Musician

Effect, Insanity, Mind, Reality

"In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect."

Chico Hamilton, American Musician

Effect, Fact, Listening, Sound

"Janet Reno, during her confirmation hearings, said she would come down harder on porno, and lately she's talked about how violence on television has an effect on violence in the real world."

Penn Jillette, American Entertainer

Effect, Television, Violence, World

"For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established."

Wilhelm Ostwald, German Scientist

Effect, Order, Water

"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."

Charles Babbage, English Mathematician

Effect,

"My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City."

Philip Morrison, American Scientist

Effect, World

"I drink for the effect, because it loosens up the tongue a little bit."

Peter Steele, American Musician

Effect, Tongue

"All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way."

Albert Speer, German Architect

Effect, Protection, Soldiers

"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."

Thomas Harrison, American Historian

Effect, Investigation, Question, Reading

Explore more quotes by Maurice Ravel

"For Debussy the musician and the man I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy."

Nature

"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."

Music

"We should always remember that sensitiveness and emotion constitute the real content of a work of art."

Art

"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."

Love

"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation."

Chance

"You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel."

End

"I am not one of the great composers. All the great have produced enormously. There is everything in their work - the best and the worst, but there is always quantity. But I have written relatively little."

Work

"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces."

Work

"I begin by considering an effect."

Effect