Vivid Imagery Quotes

#1. Then Royce's parry came a beat too late. The pale sword bit through the ringmail beneath his arm. The young Lord cried out in pain. Blood welled between the rings. It seemed red as fire where they touched the snow.

George R R Martin

#2. Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#3. Seconds slowed and passed before Nicholas's mind's eye like a parade of snails upon the garden path.

Raymond E. Feist

#4. 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

#5. Once upon a time, we ate to sustain ourselves. Now food itself is toxic.

Mark Schatzker

#6. I never forget those who do me a favor, and I never forget those who don't!

JR

#7. Holy crap and damn. Now they both hated me. At least Cookie still liked me. "I hate you," Cookie said as she checked her phone. "Just so you know.

Darynda Jones

#8. We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

Andrew Cohen

#9. Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#10. On many occasions the curious atmospheric effects enchanted me vastly; these including a strikingly vivid mirage - the first I had ever seen - in which distant bergs became the battlements of unimaginable cosmic castles.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

Louise Wilson

#12. When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

Julia Cameron

#13. It was easy to share when there was enough, even barely enough, to go round. But when there was not enough? Then force entered in; might making right; power, and its tool, violence, and its most devoted ally, the averted eye.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

Joseph Alleine

#15. A home without a dog is merely a shelter.

Stephen Huneck

#16. Because insulin's job is to transport nutrients out of the bloodstream and into the muscle, liver, and fat cell storage depots, its excessive presence in the bloodstream inhibits the release of stored body fat for use as energy.

Mark Sisson

#17. Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination.

Desi Puspitasari

#18. During dreaming, we're tuned inward, we experience vivid visual imagery, our conventional logic system is turned down, and social norms are loosened, all of which can lead to making more creative associations than we make when we're awake and our brain is censoring the illogical," she says.

Andrea Rock

#19. Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.

Raymond E. Feist

#20. He imagines Owens' body dotted with saltwater reservoirs just below the skin. An entire wetland, populated with tiny fish and birds, thriving in his agitation. A species of dwarf crocodile lazing beside an artery.

Lisa Lang

#21. There are a lot of food Nazis in the U.S., but I believe if you can show people what's really important, they'll judge the rest for themselves.

Mehmet Oz

#22. Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

Carroll Shelby

#23. 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.

Adam Rapp