The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that… — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The… — Joseph Murray Copy Share Image
“The fact that I had such vivid impressions and expectations at all is the reason I got there in the first place.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and… — David M. Evans Copy Share Image
I am not a picture guy. I like to live in the present and keep the image of the past vivid in… — Eric Ripert Copy Share Image
“You assumed whatever was vivid to yourself was vivid to others, and vice versa, but she was going to make him spell… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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
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
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
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
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
In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Mid-summer ... when the alchemy of Nature transmutes the sylvan landscape to one vivid and almost homogeneous mass of green; when the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The biggest surprise watching video on the tiny, 2.5-inch screen (320 by 240 pixels) is completely immersive. Three unexpected factors are at… — David Pogue Copy Share Image
Beware 'good' main characters who have a limited repertory of culturally acceptable feelings, while your evil bastards have a full range of… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
There were 10 or 15 years where all the Scandinavian movies were gray and light brown. I got really bored with it.… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Time will mellow it, make it a moment for laughter. But now it was not funny, now I did not laugh. It… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid… — Beverly Cleary 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
Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise, childlike. There is everything that can make me cry and… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And… — John Wolcot Copy Share Image
It is the photographs that gives one the vivid realization of what actually took place. (On photographs from Abu Ghraib prison.) — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with… — Imogen Heap 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
I think continually of those who were truly great...Born of the sun they traveled a short while towards the sun, and left… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
I may be permitted, kind reader, to doubt whether you have ever been enclosed in a glass bottle, unless some vivid dream… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image