Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy. — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to… — Italo Svevo Copy Share Image
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing,… — Linda Grant 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
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The artist does not see both eyes alike. There is always 'the eye' and the other eye... It adds life and plasticity… — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
The genius keeps all his days the vividness and intensity of interest that a sensitive child feels in his expanding world. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
“Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it?… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness. — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
I like a much more Japanese style of blood, where it's red and it almost has a paint kind of quality to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
