Overestimating Effect Quotes

#1. Out of forty-nine suits which he had, he never lost one but seventeen; the rest he gained with costs, double costs, treble costs sometimes; but even that did not pay.

Maria Edgeworth

#2. The commodification of beauty is an economic trap designed to enslave the modern woman.

Mira Jacob

#3. Until she went with him to India the first time after they were married. Then it all made sense, and she realized that the hospitality he displayed to all guests was larger than he was - it was cultural, hereditary, something coded into his DNA.

Thrity Umrigar

#4. I try to be as normal as I can.

Timbaland

#5. It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Mark Twain

#6. I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Zaeema J. Hussain

#7. I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

Chris Hughes

#8. [On President Clinton's address:] It was the worst inaugural address of our lifetime, and I think the only controversy will be between those who say it was completely and utterly banal and those who say, 'Well, not completely and utterly.

Peggy Noonan

#9. I need new prayers, the old ones don't work anymore.

Ruchir Joshi

#10. When other sects speak well of Zen, the first thing that they praise is its poverty.

Dogen

#11. Every day I am thankful for Luke, the real love of my life, my Prince Charming, my rescuer. He saved me from my biggest enemy, myself.

L.D. Davis

#12. We must never pretend appreciation, but if we feel it, then we must express it

Deepak Chopra

#13. Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

#14. Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
Bracewell: What?
Amy: Hurts, doesn't it? But kind of a good hurt.

Mark Gatiss