Somewhere, things must be beautiful and vivid. Somewhere else, life has to be beautiful and vivid and rich. Not like this muted… — Lisa Ann Sandell Copy Share Image
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I'm different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly… — Andrew X. Pham Copy Share Image
If the experience of reality matters, than nothing is going to be better than dreaming. Because dreams feel real to everybody while… — Stephen LaBerge Copy Share Image
The word 'creative' refers simply to the use of literary craft in presenting nonfiction—that is, factually accurate prose about real people and… — Lee Gutkind Copy Share Image
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another… — Mike Mills Copy Share Image
With respect to the use of this sparkling coloured material (butterfly wings around 1955, fh) - the constituent parts of which remain… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
When I stand at the top of the Champs-Elysées, with its chestnut trees in flower, its undulations of shining cars, its white… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
The interesting thing with child actors is that kids are natural actors. They're wonderful actors, and most kids are acting all the… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
The eye instinctively looks for analogies and amplifies them, so that a face imagined in the pattern of a wallpaper may become… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“After endless cajoling, rationalizing, ego stroking, and outright begging—all to no avail—Isa decided that what Marco didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.” — Margarita Barresi Copy Share Image
The poetic beauty of Davy's mind never seems to have left him. To that circumstance I would ascribe the distinguishing feature in… — Davies Gilbert Copy Share Image
We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon… — Annie Besant 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
I gather together the dreams, fantasies, experiences that preoccupied me as a girl, that stay with me and appear and reappear in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Some memories are unforgettable, remaining ever vivid and heart-warming! — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
There is no glory in war, yet from the blackness of its history, there emerge vivid colours of human character and courage.… — Silvia Cartwright Copy Share Image
My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in another place, a different kind of… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
When one becomes for an instant one's former self, that is to say different from what one has been for some time… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
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
