Discernible Effect Quotes

#1. I am happiest when I don't know what's coming next.

Cate Blanchett

#2. I know this isn't a widespread view in the Anglo Saxon world, but I believe that much of the reconciliation between more centralized governance and the scope for democracy - democratic control - will be resolved through an even stronger role of the European Parliament.

Mario Monti

#3. Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

Joe Garagiola

#4. Perhaps I'll call it Luncheon on the Grass, then," said Manet. "Since I've clearly forgotten to paint the model wet enough.

Christopher Moore

#5. When I was 13, I told my dad I needed to record myself because I sounded awesome, even though I didn't. By 18, I was a lot better. Then I got a publishing deal, so I was writing songs for other people professionally.

Meghan Trainor

#6. There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion.

Alan Watts

#7. Money comes and go but when people goes they never come

Hisham Fawzi

#8. The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.

Eileen Myles

#9. Never give a woman flowers to say I love you . Tell her how much you love her and you will wake up looking at the flowers beside her bed.

Colin Tegerdine

#10. I have heard a good many pretend that they are going to die; or that they have died, for aught that I know. Nonsense! I'll defy them to do it. They have n't got life enough in them ... Only half a dozen or so have died since the world began.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. She could hear in the darkness of her car how his breathing was quicker now; and her own was, too. She wanted to say their hears were too old for this now; you can't keep doing this to a heart, can't keep expecting your heart to pull through.

Elizabeth Strout

#12. Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence ...

Norbert Lynton