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If connoisseurship is the art of appreciation, criticism is the art of disclosure... Connoisseurs simply need to appreciate what they encounter. Critics,… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
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Ditty of First Desire In the green morning I wanted to be a heart. A heart. And in the ripe evening I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
. . . nothing could touch the strength of my love, and the thoughts of my beloved. Had I known then that… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew'… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
“We meet in a place where time stands still. You recall where you were when the call came in. The vivid colors… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
No one knows very much about the life of another. This ignorance becomes vivid, if you love another. Love sets the imagination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and… — John Mortimer Copy Share Image
Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Italy is a country which is willing to submit itself to the worst governments. It is, as we know, a country ruled… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut… — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
Africa has a genious for extremes, for the beginning and the end. It seems simultaneously connected to some memory of Eden and… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Over the course of four rough, ego-shattering hours, the ayahuasca shows me that opening myself to love of Zoe and all others… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish.… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
A vivid portrait of a teenage girl and her family in disarray. Meredith is a wonderful narrator, witty, feisty, full of yearning,… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Masculine exhalations are, as a rule, stronger, more vivid,more widely differentiated than those of women. In the odor of young men there… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Prose of the World is an enormously compelling and vivid study. The result is an ambitious, timely, and eloquent account of the… — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
America washes its dirty linen in public. When scandals such as this one hit, they do sully America's image in the world.… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding,… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in… — Mike Royer Copy Share Image
All experience and phenomena are understood to be a dream, this should not be just an intellectual understanding, but a vivid and… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Although it was autumn and not summer the dark-gold sunlight and the inky shadows, long and slender in the shape of felled… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy.… — Jesse Lee Kercheval Copy Share Image
My most vivid memory of my father centers on the day he left. It was warm, and my mother was especially short… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
It's critical that we use a very dark brush to paint evil. When you bring the light into that darkness as characterized… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
...Nameless, unknown to me as you were, I couldn't forget your voice!' 'For how long?' 'O - ever so long. Days and… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Your protagonist is your reader’s portal into the story. The more observant he or she can be, the more vivid will be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The Moon was the most spectacularly beautiful desert you could ever imagine. Unspoilt. Untouched. It had a vibrancy about it and the… — Charles Duke Copy Share Image
If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
More to the point, I know why soldiers, home from war, seldom tell their families about their exploits in more than general… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Marco opened the walkway gate just as a sprightly grey lizard skittered across the stone path. A bougainvillea vine laden with a… — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get… — Lyor Cohen Copy Share Image
It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
When you talk to people who have been in combat, there's a sensory overload that happens. The color becomes vivid. Sounds become… — David Ayer Copy Share Image