Vivify Quotes

#1. To wail adamantly that a god exists is to kill that god or turn it into a plastic idol. To say that a god might exist is to vivify it with the meaning of mystery.

Thomas Ligotti

#2. I suppose it's easier for most writers to create and vivify characters of their own gender.

Susan Vreeland

#3. Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of ... words.

Julian Whitaker

#4. The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

Gelett Burgess

#5. A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

Aldous Huxley

#6. Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.

Benny Green

#7. They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.

Charles Dickens

#8. The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

Nikola Tesla

#9. The best thing in the world for each of us is that which we can best do, because it gives us the feeling of being useful. That's happiness.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#11. In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight

Augustus Hopkins Strong