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Quotes About Affecting

When you're an artist, you can't write with the intent of affecting anyone.
~ Diana Gabaldon
The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.
~ Bob Odenkirk
The lack of fluency in Calvin's voice, his callow, chesty drone is infinitely more affecting than the deftly frantic signification of emotion practised by 'accomplished' singers.
~ Michael Azerrad
Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.
~ Stephen Richards
A burst of passion is a fine rousing thing upon occasion, Helen, and a flood of tears is marvelously affecting, but, when indulged too often, they are both deuced plaguy things for spoiling one's beauty and tiring out one's friends.
~ bronte anne ii
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
~ Edmund Burke
In light of the overall economic challenges that are affecting many, including our potential corporate sponsors, we have arrived at a most difficult decision to cancel Ebony Fashion Fair's fall 2009 season.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
no moment was his sense of the complete suspension and pause in ordinary human concerns so full and affecting, as at that moment when the suspension ceases, and the goings-on of human life are suddenly resumed.
~ Thomas de Quincey
but she felt as though whatever she'd been given in the Devil's Country it was affecting her mind, not her body, and it was not doing anything remotely healing. Quite the reverse.
~ Clive Barker
Though it may be, Jo, that there is a history so interesting and affecting even to minds as near the brutes as thine, recording deeds done on this earth for common men, that if the Chadbands, removing their own persons from the light, would but show it thee in simple reverence, would but leave it unimproved, would but regard it as being eloquent enough without their modest aid—it might hold thee awake, and thou might learn from it yet!
~ Charles Dickens
Soul power ripples outward in all directions, affecting everything— physical health, emotional well-being, relationships, families, work, and destiny.
~ Gregory Dickow
The character I played on 'Everwood' was so serious and melancholic that after doing it for four years, it really started affecting my soul. I was becoming Ephram.
~ Gregory Smith
Your calling should bless and affect the lives of others for good
~ Sunday Adelaja
This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
~ T. C. Boyle
The difference between the two classes is often a trivial concern; but in a state, and when affecting really important matters, becomes of all disorders the most hateful.
~ Plato
Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment.
~ Dean Koontz
It was a reaction bred into her from childhood. That was an explanation, not an excuse. The reaction shamed her, and yet she seemed powerless to banish it or keep it from affecting her behavior.
~ John Jakes
I want to connect music to its highest power - which is heightening consciousness and affecting people's reality. That can't be done in normal ways, not according to my experience.
~ Saul Williams
and was perhaps even more affecting when it appeared thus without the church. And, indeed, there are many others which look best when seen in this way,
~ Marcel Proust
On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting;'Twas only that when he was off he was acting.
~ Oliver Goldsmith