You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They… — Mark Twain 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
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
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
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
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
Every Day Is for the Thief is a vivid, episodic evocation of the truism that you can't go home again; but that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
If a novelist has created vivid characters, interesting relationships, settings the reader can easily imagine, and intriguing stories, a screenwriter has loads… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
Art is expression; what is expressed is often the vision of a subtle and powerful soul, and also his experience with his… — George Edward Woodberry Copy Share Image
Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze… — Chris Bachelder Copy Share Image
Thrilling, illuminating, heart-pounding. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy reads like a crackling espionage novel and resonates as only the most compelling history can.… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks 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
I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so… — Tituss Burgess 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
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
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
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
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
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
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of… — Cassandra Clare 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
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
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
I have always loved tartans - such an ornamented type of weaving, so vivid in colour, and such a masculine aspect. But… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
The Dead and Those About to Die is a gripping, first-hand account of the desperate battle for Omaha Beach on D-Day by… — Carlo D'Este Copy Share Image
I enjoyed Old Man's War immensely. A space war story with fast action, vivid characters, moral complexity and cool speculative physics, set… — Ken MacLeod Copy Share Image
I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
