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Vivid Quotes

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The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.
Meryl Streep

Authors on Vivid Quotes: Virginia Woolf Mark Twain Eric Hoffer H. G. Wells T. J. Stiles Brian De Palma Cassandra Clare George Santayana Edward Hoagland Robert Hass Anna Letitia Barbauld David Foster Wallace Ivars Peterson Paul Stanley Tim Finn Alfred North Whitehead Mary Catherwood Janice Dickinson Elliot W. Eisner Federico Fellini T. Jefferson Parker Brian McKnight Bernadette Peters Giacomo Leopardi Eliot Spitzer Rolf Potts Alice Walker David Hume Haruki Murakami Pema Chodron Tim O'Brien Anne Morrow Lindbergh Meryl Streep
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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.
Bernadette Peters

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I have absurdly vivid dreams.
Erin Morgenstern

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Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
Daniel J. Boorstin

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I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.
Bryce Dallas Howard

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The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
Elliot W. Eisner

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Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.
Jonathan Safran Foer

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All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
Kenneth Grahame

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I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence.
Brian De Palma

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So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which was so startling; felt something emerge. Life was most vivid then.
Virginia Woolf

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I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure.
Giacomo Leopardi

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Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.
H. G. Wells

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Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.
Ivars Peterson

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I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But actually, I think tartans can be feminine or masculine.
Christian Louboutin

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Indeed, the most vivid travel experiences usually find you by accident, and the qualities that will make you fall in love with a place are rarely the features that took you there.
Rolf Potts

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Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.
T. E. Hulme

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In the vivid description of the Gospel, it would seem that we must help the Christ hidden in every poor man, in every prisioner, in every sufferer. But if we paraphrased the marvelous scene and applied it to the child, we should find that Christ goes to help all men in the form of the child.
Maria Montessori

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You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.
Mark Twain

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Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and I ought to say that it (my crying) is not an easy thing.
Federico Fellini

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I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.
Woodrow Wilson

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When you give up yourself, that's when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that's giving that's serving others and that's when you feel Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.
Joanne Woodward

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What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can only be enthralled by a problem.
Thomas Mann

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To philosophize means to make vivid.
Novalis

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Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.
Sam Abell

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With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable.
Ansel Adams

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It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.
Tim O'Brien

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The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat.
Mike Pence

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There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage. Those who risked their lives to help their friends.
Silvia Cartwright

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What we perceive as the present is the vivid fringe of memory tinged with anticipation.
Alfred North Whitehead

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To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be.
George Santayana

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Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.
Pema Chodron

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I have a very vivid imagination.
Janice Dickinson

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She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.
Haruki Murakami

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A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough.
Ernst Mach

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Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.
Rollo May

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Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming!
Joseph B. Wirthlin

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A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.
Aristotle

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There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.
Robbie Robertson

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For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake,
since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?
Rene Descartes

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Memories began swarming in, vivid and impatient, like a litter of little mice.
Simone Berteaut

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There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown to bits in such a moment and still be at peace.
Alice Walker

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In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.
David Hume

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From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.
Larry Watson

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Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience.
Eric Hoffer

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The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous.
Anna Letitia Barbauld

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Merely to see... is not enough. It is necessary to have a fresh, vivid, physical contact with the object you draw through as many of the senses as possible - and especially through the sense of touch.
Kimon Nicolaides

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Everything I have now is so real, so vivid.
Brian McKnight

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The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.
Eliot Spitzer

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Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.
Don DeLillo