Quotes about Vivid

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. Votes: 6

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Votes: 6

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another. Votes: 6

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better. Votes: 5

I have a very vivid imagination. Votes: 4

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. Votes: 4

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. Votes: 4

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. Votes: 4

Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams. Votes: 4

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. Votes: 4

Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Votes: 4

Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and favor to the final taste of victory. Votes: 4

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind. Votes: 4

When prescribing one of the drugs I take, my doctor warned me of a common side effect: exaggerated, intensely vivid dreams. To be honest, I've never really noticed the difference. I've always dreamt big. Votes: 4

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. Votes: 4

The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen. Votes: 4

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen. Votes: 4

But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance. Votes: 4

Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. Votes: 4

The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar effect was produced by the inquests of 1166 and 1170, before alluded to. Even to this day, the word 'inquisitorial' bears the burden of historical unpopularity. Votes: 4

Revival is the visitation of God which brings to life Christians who have been sleeping and restores a deep sense of God's near presence and holiness. Thence springs a vivid sense of sin and a profound exercise of heart in repentance, praise, and love, with an evangelistic outflow. Votes: 4

Mr. Buckles has a vivid recollection of historic times, and one way for me to honor the service of those who wear the uniform in the past and those who wear it today is to herald you, sir, and to thank you very much for your patriotism and your love for America. Votes: 4

People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does. Votes: 4

Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble. Votes: 3

Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. Votes: 3

There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace. Votes: 3

Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and goes to a different part of the brain. Votes: 3

August is ripening grain in the fields blowing hot and sunny, the scent of tree-ripened peaches, of hot buttered sweet corn on the cob. Vivid dahlias fling huge tousled blossoms through gardens and joe-pye-weed dusts the meadow purple. Votes: 3

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heartwarming! Votes: 2

I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD. Votes: 2

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in. Votes: 2

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. Votes: 2

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. Votes: 2

I don't understand people who dream in black and white. I just don't get it. My dreams have always been vivid color. Votes: 2

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now. Votes: 2

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics. Votes: 2

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse. Votes: 2

Everything starts with writing. I heard Nikki Giovanni and was blown away. I just thought 'wow'; she was writing from a black girl's perspective, and the imagery was so vivid that I started doing spoken word. Votes: 2

I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones. Votes: 2

I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process. Votes: 2

I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character. Votes: 2

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. Votes: 2

Your protagonist is your reader's portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be the world you're creating. They don't have to be super-educated, they just have to be mentally active. Keep them looking, thinking, wondering, remembering. Votes: 2

Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works. Votes: 2

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination. Votes: 2

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like. Votes: 2

If memories were indeed like what a camera records, they could be forgotten, or they could fade so that they are no longer clear and vivid. But it would be difficult to explain how people could have memories that are both clear and vivid while also being wrong. Yet that happens, and it is not infrequent. Votes: 2

To my young friends out there: Life can be great, but not when you can't see it. So, open your eyes to life: to see it in the vivid colors that God gave us as a precious gift to His children, to enjoy life to the fullest, and to make it count. Say yes to your life. Votes: 2

I have very vivid dreams - almost always action-adventure. I'm often on the run. I've always had dreams. When I was little, I'd go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies. Votes: 2

The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody else inside you, then that heart is there. Jesus' heart is inside me, and my heart is gone. So if God were to place a stethoscope against my chest, he would hear the heart of Jesus Christ beating. Votes: 2

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier. Votes: 2

I have absurdly vivid dreams. Votes: 0

I have a very vivid memory. Votes: 0

To philosophize means to make vivid. Votes: 0

Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches. Votes: 0

I have a vivid picture of what I want. Votes: 0

Everything I have now is so real, so vivid. Votes: 0

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow. Votes: 0

Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming! Votes: 0

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid. Votes: 0

Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling. Votes: 0

You must have a vivid imagination of what you seek. Votes: 0

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination. Votes: 0

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son. Votes: 0

A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness. Votes: 0

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep. Votes: 0

A vivid color blocked tunic dress sets the perfect tone for Spring. Votes: 0

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me. Votes: 0

Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it~? Votes: 0

Without a vivid picture of what you want, how can you reach it? Votes: 0

Every vivid memory holds some essential truth about your vision of the world Votes: 0

Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice. Votes: 0

Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation. Votes: 0

Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it. Votes: 0

A meaningful conceptual basis is always more important than vivid photographs, and vice versa. Votes: 0

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge. Votes: 0

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them. Votes: 0

What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation. Votes: 0

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. Votes: 0

I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape. Votes: 0

The only thing I can say is consistent in all my paintings is vivid color. Votes: 0

Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived. Votes: 0

With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world. Votes: 0

Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas. Votes: 0

Years of live storytelling and character acting have helped me with building vivid locations and scenes. Votes: 0

A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. Votes: 0

With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. Votes: 0

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places. Votes: 0

I'm not a writer. Ernest Hemingway was a writer. I just have a vivid imagination and type 90 WPM. Votes: 0

I think there's a huge difference between describing norms in a vivid way and singling out individual people. Votes: 0

Ko Un is a crucial poet for the twenty-first century, and this is an enormously fresh and vivid translation. Votes: 0

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. Votes: 0

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. Votes: 0

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can. Votes: 0

I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic. Votes: 0

It's more important to be interesting, to be vivid, and to be adventurous than to sit pretty for pictures. Votes: 0

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience. Votes: 0

One meets and wakes you to vivid life in an immortal hour. Thousands could not do it through eternity. Votes: 0

I had a very vivid, almost hallucinatory moment in which I was engaged in a dialogue with my father. Votes: 0

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD. Votes: 0

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background. Votes: 0

A strong emotion, especially if experienced for the first time, leaves a vivid memory of the scene where it occurred. Votes: 0

I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. Votes: 0

It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion. Votes: 0

The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms. Votes: 0

Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. Votes: 0

A lively retrospect summons back to us once more our youth, with vivid reflex of its early joys and unstained pleasures. Votes: 0

Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood. Votes: 0

It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) Votes: 0

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream. Votes: 0

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. Votes: 0

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us. Votes: 0

The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." Votes: 0

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. Votes: 0

I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything. Votes: 0

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way. Votes: 0

I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid. Votes: 0

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever. Votes: 0

Autumn that year painted the countryside in vivid shades of scarlet, saffron and russet, and the days were clear and crisp under harvest skies. Votes: 0

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan. Votes: 0

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films. Votes: 0

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection. Votes: 0

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. Votes: 0

Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching little people as they are! Votes: 0

Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. Votes: 0

Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of vivid, passionate feelings. Votes: 0

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before. Votes: 0

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. Votes: 0

I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny. Votes: 0

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows. Votes: 0

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. Votes: 0

And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity. Votes: 0

Thank you, Occupy Wall Street. With your vivid example of anticapitalist squalor, I've been able to convince all three of my children to become investment bankers. Votes: 0

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write. Votes: 0

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory remains vivid. Votes: 0

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery. Votes: 0

The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat. Votes: 0

The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become more vivid than a photograph. Votes: 0

Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. Votes: 0

The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time. Votes: 0

The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that before. I could hear it forever. Votes: 0

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. Votes: 0

We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs forever, but in the august light of abiding memories. Votes: 0

I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I don't want it to end. Votes: 0

I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous. Votes: 0

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence. Votes: 0

The vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind. Votes: 0

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing Votes: 0

Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give a vivid, involving, and memorable performance. Votes: 0

Vagabonding is an attitude "” a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word. Votes: 0

Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. Votes: 0

What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem. Votes: 0

I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity. Votes: 0

All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. Votes: 0

Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon them; let a boat be kept there. Votes: 0

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! Votes: 0

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid. Votes: 0

How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers. Votes: 0

I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream has teased you with such magical mishaps. Votes: 0

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads... and the pictures were so vivid. Votes: 0

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid. Votes: 0

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter. Votes: 0

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream. Votes: 0

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain. Votes: 0

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor Votes: 0

Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed. Votes: 0

Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less like reading a story than experiencing it firsthand. Votes: 0

Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of vivid memories when the grown child confronts them. Votes: 0

Coming home seemed to have started the healing process. No longer vivid and garish, the memories seemed to be covered in gossemer, fading behind a curtain of time and forgiveness. Votes: 0

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body. Votes: 0

Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb. Votes: 0

I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife Votes: 0

I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left the vivid air signed with their honor. Votes: 0

It never leaves, not with someone we love. Their presence burns too vivid in our memories. Happen that is as it should be, for otherwise we would too easy forget. Votes: 0

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness. Votes: 0

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid. Votes: 0

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever. Votes: 0

I live within the vivid colors of my imagination, soaring with rainbow-feathered birds, racing the desert winds on horseback, wrapped in ancient tribal jewels, dancing with mythical tigers in steamy jungles. Votes: 0

In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper. Votes: 0

I feel like the original 'Mad Max' created such a vivid world, that to go back and re-imagine it and kind of replay in that sandbox sounds like fun to me. Votes: 0

I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine. Votes: 0

There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends. Votes: 0

Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's vivid and high-velocity, too. I couldn't put it down. Votes: 0

As a kid, I always had a super vivid imagination, like "Man, I like those shoes, but they should've made them in purple" or like, "Man, I wonder how people make songs." Votes: 0

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles. Votes: 0

The thing that makes vivid writing is when the reader is in the body of the story, the body of the character. Things smell like something; there's weather, there's texture, there's light. Votes: 0

Mystical experiences do not necessarily supply new ideas to the mind, rather, they transform what one believes into what one knows, converting abstract concepts, such as divine love, into vivid, personal, realities. Votes: 0

Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch. Votes: 0

Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted. Votes: 0

Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there. Votes: 0

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Votes: 0

I think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things. Votes: 0

You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident. Votes: 0

If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy. Votes: 0

I've listened to Eminem rap. That's not daily fare for me, but I can't help but admire how vivid what he does is. My own taste goes a little more toward Norah Jones. Votes: 0

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Votes: 0

It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest. Votes: 0

Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the relationship between early-twentieth-century fiction and the contemporary global novel in English. Votes: 0

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel. Votes: 0

There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it. I really felt that movies had to have that life of vivid colors. Votes: 0

I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was. Votes: 0

In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly standard philosophical analysis of ideas in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer. Votes: 0

I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort of narrative, and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff. Votes: 0

The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition. Votes: 0

Ultimately humanity is one, and this small planet is our only home. If we're to protect this home of ours, each of us needs to experience a vivid sense of universal altruism and compassion. Votes: 0

A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is] a deft, virtuosic panorama of early jazz. . . This is a mind-opening, and mind-filling, book. Votes: 0

American and Vietnamese characters alike leap to life through the voice and eyes of a tenyearold girl-a protagonist so strong, loving, and vivid I longed to hand her a wedge of freshly cut papaya. Votes: 0

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective. Votes: 0

Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and environment, the ability to concentrate, a good memory and a vivid imagination. Votes: 0

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another. Votes: 0

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration. Votes: 0

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then. Votes: 0

Every year, the memories I have of my father become more faint, unclear, and distant. once they were vivid and true, then they became like photographs, and now they are more like photographs of photographs. Votes: 0

Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing. Votes: 0

In this vivid depiction of the wiseguys and poor sods who drift through his flawed hero's bar, Con Lehane also shows us their modest hopes and dreams . . . There are no easy solutions in McNulty's world. Votes: 0

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today. Votes: 0

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. Votes: 0

If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics, however, must render these qualities vivid by the artful use of critical disclosure. Votes: 0