Vivid Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Differences, Light, Duration

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sunset, Fire, Water

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• It doesn't matter whether characters are real people or not; if they're not vivid on the page, then the reader doesn't care about them that much, and, if the reader doesn't care about them that much, then they don't care what happens to them.

  Salman Rushdie

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Beautiful, Memories, Heart

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1859). “Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances: Or, What He Said, Did, Or Invented”, p.146

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• 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.

  Thomas Mann

  Passionate, Demand, Youth

  Thomas Mann (2010). “Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage

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• An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today.

  Jim Davis

  Memories, Powerful, Past

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• From the girl who sat before me now...surged a fresh and physical life force. She was like a small animal that has popped into the world with the coming of spring. Her eyes moved like an independent organism with joy, laughter, anger, amazement, and despair. I hadn't seen a face so vivid and expressive in ages, and I enjoyed watching it live and move.

  Haruki Murakami

  Girl, Laughter, Spring

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• More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general terms. We who survive must go on in the names of those who fall, but if we dwell too much on the vivid details of what we've witnessed of man's inhumanity to man, we simply can't go on. perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

  Dean Koontz

  Perseverance, War, Fall

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.294, Bantam

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• Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there is something elemental, as of fire, storm, and salt sea. It pulsates with buoyancy and desire. It suggests all the things strong and beautiful and joyous and gives me a sense of physical happiness.

  Helen Keller

  Beautiful, Strong, Men

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• While the repression of a memory is a psychological process, the suppression of feeling is accomplished by deadening a part of the body or reducing its motility so that feeling is diminished. 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. Suppression entails the development of chronic muscular tension in those areas of the body where the feeling would be experienced. In the case of sexual feeling, this tension is found in and about the abdomen and pelvis

  Alexander Lowen

  Memories, Long, Feelings

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• 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.

  Nicole Krauss

  Memories, Father, Years

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.192, W. W. Norton & Company

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• To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Lying, Forgiving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.

  John D. MacDonald

  Girl, Strong, Hedging

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• 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.

  Justin Cronin

  Wall, War, Fall

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

  Ruth St. Denis

  Dance, Ballet, Denial

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• 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.

  Arthur Smith

  Memories, Atmosphere, Phrases

  "Arthur Smith" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2002.

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• 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.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Morning, Sky, Saws

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.156

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• 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.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Writing, Perspective

  "One on one: Jill Scott". LA Focus Newspaper Interview, lafocusnewspaper.com. October 6, 2013.

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• 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.

  Steven Pinker

  Memories, Psychology, Mind

  "Steven Pinker: fighting talk from the prophet of peace". Interview with John Naughton, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2011.

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• Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I wanted to be a nightingale. A nightingale. (Soul, turn orange-colored. Soul, turn the color of love.) In the vivid morning I wanted to be myself. A heart. And at the evening's end I wanted to be my voice. A nightingale. Soul, turn orange-colored. Soul, turn the color of love.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Morning, Heart, Color

  Federico García Lorca, “Ditty Of First Desire”

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• 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.

  Mike Pence

  London, Steps, Reminders

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Spiritual, Jesus, Heart

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• 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.

  Christian Louboutin

  Thinking, Weaving, Feminine

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

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Father, Moments, Dialogue

  "In the name of the father". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2003.

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

  Amy Lee

  Dream, Song, Crazy

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