An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future… — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
The government cannot overcome bad parenting. What our leaders can do is publicly condemn irresponsible parental behavior in vivid terms. — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and ones a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
Merely stating a truth isn't enough. The truth has to be made vivid, interesting, dramatic. You have to use showmanship. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart. For we can… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I'm halfway through Patti Smith's memoir 'Just Kids,' which is heart-stoppingly vivid. It drips with beauty and hope and devastating candour. I… — Hattie Morahan 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 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
...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
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps… — William Ellery Channing 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
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
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
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick… — Robbie Robertson Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
Ordinary mind includes eternal perceptions. Notice what you notice. Observe what's vivid. Catch yourself thinking. Vividness is self-selecting. And remember the future. — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
Blood Riders is a novel like you've never read before - part Western and part horror and one-hundred percent sweet excitement. It's… — T. Jefferson Parker Copy Share Image
Intensely vivid characters, terrible crimes, and a brutal deep-frozen landscape all prove beyond a reasonable doubt that cold nurtures good and evil… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists,… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
I used some vivid language that, if I could take it back, I'd take it back. It's not my intention to be… — Paul O'Neill Copy Share Image
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and… — Kevin Clash Copy Share Image
Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly… — Carlisle Floyd Copy Share Image
Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid I give it a rivet, hold… — Aceyalone Copy Share Image
We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen… — Giacomo Leopardi Copy Share Image
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