Vividness Quotes
24 quotes by 23 authors
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole…
— Italo Svevo
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Mindfulness is about being fully awake in our lives. It is about perceiving the exquisite vividness of each moment. We also gain immediate access to…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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You must assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled until your assumption has all the sensory vividness of reality. You must imagine that you are…
— Neville Goddard
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I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.
— Frances Mayes
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A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills to…
— Peter Galison
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The here, the now, and the individual, have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet, and-from time immemorial- the woman.…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you…
— Epictetus
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No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each…
— Herbert Hoover
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Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the vividness and imagination…
— Tom Shippey
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I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called. I merely try to…
— James M. Cain
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In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a…
— S I Hayakawa
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The history of a city was like the history of a family—there is closeness and even affection, but death eventually separates everyone from each other.…
— John Irving
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For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet…
— George Eliot
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The things that we preceive as beautiful may be different, but the actual characteristics we ascribe to beautiful objects are similar. Think about it. When…
— James Redfield
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In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.…
— Richard Holloway
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I know many filmmakers, and shooting in IMAX is challenging. Filmmakers love the vividness and power of those big images.
— Nina Jacobson
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In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes.…
— Aristotle
Who Wrote These Vividness Quotes
23 authors contributed a total of 24 Vividness Quotes as follows: