Lifelike Quotes

#1. So much urgent and lifelike love went rumbling around underground and died there, never got expressed at all, so let some errant inconvenient attraction have its way. There was so little time

Lorrie Moore

#2. To shy away from human extremes and human sensuality makes for bone-dry fiction. A world parched of our sexual releases and our tumultuous daily emotional lives is deeply impoverished. It is not lifelike, at least life as I remember living it.

Allan Gurganus

#3. The world doesn't fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life.

Betsy Lerner

#4. I remember reading an interview with a writer who said that in nonfiction if you have one lie it sort of messes it up. But in fiction the real details give you so much more credibility, because people do so much research just to write fiction. In fiction you're trying to recreate something lifelike.

Edwidge Danticat

#5. Stories should put knowledge into a frame work that is more lifelike.

Chip Heath

#6. But really, all memories are like paintings: They can be incredibly vivid and lifelike. But in the end, they both just remind us that we only get to live any particular moment once, even if we remember it forever.

Gwendolyn Heasley

#7. May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

Lewis Carroll

#8. As the conceptual, material world increases its hold on us, and inanimate objects become more lifelike, we humans must become more human. Open hearts, kindness and care-these are our most precious gifts.

Sakyong Mipham

#9. For a true work of creativity, you must reach beyond yourself to bring correct draftsmanship together with strong composition and lifelike colors.

Doug Dawson

#10. We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.

Evelyn Underhill

#11. To bring anything really to life in literature we can't be lifelike: we have to be literature-like

Northrop Frye

#12. I like films that are so funny, dramatic and lifelike simultaneously, that you are laughing and cringing simultaneously all throughout the film.

Mike Birbiglia

#13. What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.

Nick Woodman

#14. I always hesitate to say that something is lifelike.

Ann Goldstein

#15. There are characters in movies who I call 'film characters.' They don't exist in real life. They exist to play out a scenario. They can be in fantastic films, but they are not real characters; what happens to them is not lifelike.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#16. It seemed to me that half of life's problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.

Richard Powers

#17. I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest.

Octavia Spencer

#18. The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

Ron Carlson

#19. The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

Ann Radcliffe

#20. Fear is ugly. It is monstrous. But fear stands no chance in the face of faith.

Toni Sorenson

#21. When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, some past connection.

Richard Gere

#22. I think society is both something that's very real and very powerful, but on the whole quite problematic.

Peter Thiel

#23. If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

J.B. Priestley

#24. I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason - I burned inside to play volleyball.

Summer Altice