Vivid Language Quotes

#1. Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you're sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart's a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?"
"Mm-hmm." He finished his ale. "That would be love.

Jacqueline Carey

#2. Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

John Mortimer

#3. For this gospel I was appointed w a herald, apostle, and teacher, x 12 and that is why I suffer y these things. But I am not ashamed, because I know the One I have believed in and am persuaded that He is able to guard what has been entrusted to me C, z until that day. a

Anonymous

#4. When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity.

Terry Mancour

#5. When you love, love as if the person is a god, not less than that. Never love a woman as a woman and never love a man as a man.

Osho

#6. House Speaker Thomas Reed could destroy an argument or expose a fallacy in fewer words than anyone else. His language was vivid and picturesque. He had a way of phrasing things which was peculiarly apt and peculiarly his own.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#7. Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Andrei Codrescu

#8. I get antsy if a year goes by without doing a play. I don't go to the gym, so this is my way of trying to live longer.

Rory Kinnear

#9. Jesus is busy with his own stuff, and is not going to get involved in your little tug-of-war. Plus, don't forget, he has his own mother to deal with. She's all he can handle, as far as mothers go.

Anne Lamott

#10. Of all the languages that have existed upon the Earth, the Hebrew language is unique and extraordinary in its ability to paint vivid pictures with words that lodge within the heart conveying deep and profound Truth".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#11. It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?

Confucius

#12. I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be personally critical of the President or of anyone else.

Paul O'Neill

#13. My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.

Werner Herzog

#14. Everything great is not always good, but all good things, are great.

Demosthenes

#15. A man's most vivid emotional and sensuous experience is inevitably bound up with the language that he actually speaks. (New Bearings in English Poetry)

F.R. Leavis

#16. It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before.

Dexter Palmer

#17. I did five movies in Australia, I did three films in Germany, this is the fourth film I've done here in the UK, I've done a bunch of films in Canada.

Joel Silver

#18. If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.

Jeremy Sumpter

#19. To friends and family: Look beyond a bruise for signs of domestic abuse of a loved one. We

Janie McQueen

#20. LOVE JUNKIE travels tenderly and boldly into the despair, isolation, and tenacity of sex and love addiction. Rachel Resnick's gift for language and storytelling craft a vivid picture of her journey and her heart shines pure.

Kelly McDaniel