There is always a moment in any kind of struggle when one feels in full bloom. Vivid. Alive. One might be blown… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Fear is a natural reaction of moving closer to the truth. If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The fascinating necessarily tends to call a certain attention to itself; the interesting need not. An evening spent with a fascinating person… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
Everything I'm teaching you about acting has one aim only: to fire you up emotionally and behaviorally so that you can give… — Larry Moss Copy Share Image
To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived;… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
I discovered that silent film is almost an advantage. You just have to think of the feeling for it to show. No… — Jean Dujardin 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
What pleases the public is lively and vivid delineation which makes no demands on the intellect; but passionate and absolutist youth can… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Perhaps a good resolution for the new year would be to keep asking what world we want to pass on to the… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Achievers can almost literally taste success because they imagine their goals in such vivid detail. Setbacks only seem to add spice and… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Drinking wine is easy: tilt glass and swallow. Really tasting wine is more of a challenge. You need the proper tools and… — Marvin Shanken Copy Share Image
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly… — John Hawkes Copy Share Image
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Every childhood has its talismans, the sacred objects that look innocuous enough to the outside world, but that trigger an onslaught of… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
The pioneer scientist must have "a vivid intuitive imagination, for new ideas are not generated by deduction, but by artistically creative imagination." — Max Planck Copy Share Image
I had a very bad first experience of Shakespeare at school, and, now I'm determined to put that wrong right and just… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Olive Kitteridge' is a masterpiece: The writing is so perfect you don't even notice it; the story is so vivid it's less… — Melissa Bank Copy Share Image
From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my… — Larry Watson Copy Share Image
In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us,… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the… — Vince Gill Copy Share Image
The memories stayed with him for so long, and stayed vivid. And it didn't matter to me that he'd already repeated that… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
“The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image