Quotes About Vividness

#1. An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass

Ron Rash

#2. Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his body had passed the message of a magic touch. And so it had.

George Eliot

#3. No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

Herbert Hoover

#4. Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Richard Holloway

#5. Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they seem dead and desultory, like time - bitten mummies stuck in a quagmire.

Henry Miller

#6. Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.

John Banville

#7. The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world.

Dorothea Brande

#8. Her thoughts came to life in the stillness of the wood, nurtured by the air and the scent and the vividness of it.

Meagan Spooner

#9. Lyndon Johnson's sentences were the sentences of a man with a remarkable gift for words, not long words but evocative, of a man with a remarkable gift for images, homey images of a vividness that infused the sentences with drama.

Robert A. Caro

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

Allen Ginsberg

#11. There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who can get so close to the vividness of other peoples interior selves.

Linda Grant

#12. Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.

Epictetus

#13. Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

Humphry Davy

#14. The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

George Henry Lewes

#15. I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.

Nina Jacobson

#16. At its simplest, the parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt to its precise application to tease the mind into active thought.

C. H. Dodd

#17. Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Italo Svevo

#18. Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

E.F. Benson

#19. Long afterward, many would remember those two days in the first week of October with vividness and anguish.

Arthur Hailey

#20. Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.

Rose Tremain

#21. For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

May Sinclair

#22. Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination she had from the beginning into wisdom and a clearsightedness that reaches past sympathy.

Tom Shippey

#23. I'll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

Frances Mayes

#24. The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, the ferocity, the amount and degree of pure sensation that it provides. Intensity.

Dean Koontz

#25. I perceived with a sudden novel vividness the extraordinary folly of everything I had ever done.

H.G.Wells

#26. We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

William Hazlitt

#27. I+V=R (Imagination mixed with Vividness becomes Reality.) The speaker pointed out that the mind thinks in pictures, not in words. And as we vividly picture in our mind what we desire, it will become a reality.

Glenna Salsbury

#28. Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to our own powerful inner resources for insight, transformation, and healing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#29. I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to it. You can put it on metal, and it has this vividness. Because, normally, what they use in Hollywood is this stuff that looks like strawberry pancake syrup or raspberry pancake syrup.

Quentin Tarantino

#30. I chose you. It was always you. From the first moment I held you, I knew you were mine.

Ashlan Thomas

#31. They say shyness is a form of egotism, and you are only shy because you care too much about what people think of you. And maybe its true, maybe I am just an egotist.

Mika.

#32. Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady, one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George's spine.
Harry.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#33. The journey to greatness is a marathon, not a hundred meter dash.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#34. I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought ... I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses ... I am using so many high curved belts.

Oscar De La Renta

#35. What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two: melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land.

Ernesto Che Guevara

#36. You made it something special. Most of all, I want to thank the fans for your support not through the great times that we shared on the football field, but for the last 17 years of my life. You have supported me through all times.

Michael Irvin

#37. Life is for my own to live my own way.

James Hetfield

#38. If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

Wanda E. Brunstetter

#39. Well may I get aboard. [He sees a bear.] This is the chase:
I am gone for ever! [Exist pursued by a bear.]

William Shakespeare

#40. You can still be cool when you're dead. In fact, it's much easier, because you aren't getting old and fat and losing your hair.

Audrey Niffenegger

#41. I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

Charles Spurgeon

#42. Nothing would mean anything if I didn't live a life of use to others.

Angelina Jolie

#43. The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

David Attenborough