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
Perhaps the most vivid recollection of my youth is that of the local wheelmen, led by my father, stopping at our home… — Tennessee Williams 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
This Ayah indicates that the pious person should express his love to Allah by believing in His Prophet and following the Message,… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
When van Gogh paints sunflowers, he reveals, or achieves, the vivid relation between himself, as man, and the sunflower, as sunflower, at… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I think the thing that impressed me the most was the Lunar's sunrises and sunsets. These in particular bring out the stark… — William Anders Copy Share Image
Photographic memory is often confused with another bizarre - but real - perceptual phenomenon called eidetic memory, which occurs in between 2… — Joshua Foer 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
I feel I do my best work when it's all there on the page, and I feel that the character is very… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I… — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come in to existence, save as the consequence of a most profound,… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God,… — Walter Scott 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
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes -… — Claire Tomalin 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
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
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
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
The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there,… — Lewis Buzbee 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
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
My belief is in the blood and flesh as being wiser than the intellect. The body-unconsciou s is where life bubbles up… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Love is vivid. I never wanted the pale version. Love is full strength. I never wanted the diluted version. I never shied… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It’s a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn’t felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
'Sword and Sworcery' takes you into a world of mystery and music. With sword and shield in hand, the one thing you… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I don't think I have ever done anything for this age of children before, a pre-school audience. Generally speaking, we don't have… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens… — Niall Williams Copy Share Image
In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Still, the vivid green of the grass-where the grass is actually managing to assert itself through the dirt-seems out of place. This… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look around my living room, and the most real thing in the room is the television. It's bright and vivid,… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart.… — Gabi Hollows Copy Share Image
The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone… — John Irving Copy Share Image
War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection… — John S. Mosby Copy Share Image
You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that… — Larry Page Copy Share Image
![“The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I walk up to my mom with a plastic bag over my head and she says that her clothes better not be on the floor, not that a plastic bag is not a safety hazard or anything. I think it's a really cute…” quote by Kiernan Shipka](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3ba/kiernan-shipka-13091_bags_the-first-scene-i-ever-appeared-in-it-wa_3175970.jpg)
