Mediating Effect Quotes

#1. As parents, can we counter the effect of television violence? One worrying feature in Britain is that so many TV sets are in a child's bedroom; this means that the mediating effect of watching with a parent, the ability to discuss and interpret what has been seen, is lost.

Robert Winston

#2. I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

Claire Tomalin

#3. I would give my left arm to fly in one of those aeroplanes ...

Joseph Boyden

#4. I love a good suit.

Martin Freeman

#5. YA heroines can have romances that are subplots: can have goals other than getting/keeping a man: can put their lovers second. JUST LIKE YAheroes DO!

Celine Kiernan

#6. All change begins with someone having a thought.

Paul Morley

#7. The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#8. I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

Mel Gibson

#9. One of the Arsenal players came up to me afterwards and said it had been an honor to be on the same pitch as me. I thought, My God, that is a great thing to say when your team has just lost.

Lionel Messi

#10. Saying it out loud, to someone else, makes it truer somehow. Real. Done.

Abby McDonald

#11. Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Henry David Thoreau

#12. This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith ...

Nirmala Srivastava

#13. Oh, deeply vulnerable as a woman - to love someone not knowing whether they love me in return.

Joan Osborne

#14. Whenever he required a small burst of fireworks to his heart, he would remove the folder from the bedside drawer and look at the contents while enjoying a beer or seven.

Maggie Stiefvater

#15. Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions.

Alexander Dubcek

#16. Physics is not about having memorized all the answers, but rather about asking the right questions. For when the right question is posed of a phenomenon, either the answer becomes clear or at least a path to further and more fruitful questioning is revealed.

James Kakalios