Vivid Quotes - Page 11

It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.

David Foster Wallace

Tattoo, Queens, Valentine

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I think my mistakes were kind of common - leaning on cliches and adjectives in the place of clear, vivid writing. But at least I knew how to spell, which seems to be a rarity these days.

Dick Schaap

Mistake, Writing, Thinking

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Art begins when a man wishes to immortalize the most vivid moment he has ever lived.

Arthur Symons

Art, Men, Wish

Arthur Symons, Karl E. Beckson (1989). “Arthur Symons, selected letters, 1880-1935”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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How vivid is the suffering of the few when the people are few and how the suffering of nameless millions in two world wars is blurred over by numbers.

Edwin Way Teale

War, Two, Numbers

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The key to effective visualization is to create the most detailed, clear and vivid a picture to focus on as possible. The more vivid the visualization, the more likely, and quickly, you are to begin attracting the things that help you achieve what you want to get done.

Georges St-Pierre

Keys, Mma, Focus

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The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh.

William C. Davis

Hero, Writing, Blood

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With James Reese’s vivid and chilling novel, readers will gain a whole new appreciation of two gothic landmarks, Dracula and Jack the Ripper. Not only does The Dracula Dossier grip us with its fast paced hunt for history’s most notorious killer, it also enchants us with sophisticated and lyrical recreations of its unique period and strong characters. A daring achievement.

Matthew Pearl

Appreciation, Strong, Character

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My experience with life is that it's very fragmented. In one place certain kinds of thing occur, and in another place a different kind of thing occurs. I would like my work to have some vivid indication of those differences. I guess, in painting, it would amount to different kinds of space being represented in it.

Jasper Johns

Differences, Space, Different

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Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy.

Catherine Asaro

Character, Writing, People

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It is often the case, as all the saints know, that fellowship with the Father and the Son is most vivid and sweet, and Christian joy is greatest, when the cross is heaviest.

J. I. Packer

Christian, Sweet, Father

J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother's English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It's my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is vivid, direct, full of observation and imagery. That was the language that helped shape the way I saw things, expressed things, made sense of the world

Amy Tan

Mother, Chinese, World

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I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

Clarence Darrow

Life, Order, Vivid Imagination

Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.38, Lulu.com

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The reason to drive this point home with a vivid and frank comparison is many New Yorkers are still not confronting the reality of how serious our crisis is. It was an exhortation to face reality.

Eliot Spitzer

Home, Reality, Faces

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A vivid tale of exploration set in a howling, deadly wilderness.

T. J. Stiles

Wilderness, Exploration, Tales

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I stand, limited primitive, sentimentalist, escapist
The way I shape this landscape, automatically makes this, vivid
I give it a rivet, hold it, stand at the pivot
I love it, learn to live it, then give you my exhibit

Aceyalone

Giving, Hip Hop, Shapes

Song: The Guidelines, 1998

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To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable equations and incomprehensible concepts. Few realize that the world of modern mathematics is rich with vivid images and provocative ideas.

Ivars Peterson

Math, Ideas, World

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In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these pages is like living them. Only as I closed the book did I sadly realize that Georgette and Ann weren't my neighbors. But happily I can revisit them again, and again, in this beautiful and absorbing novel.

Margot Livesey

Beautiful, Reading, Book

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Fred didn't have a favourite colour. He was just pleased that he could see all of the colours in the colour chart. That was his wish for everyone. Fred wanted people to experience the joy of seeing vivid colours - in nature: the greens and browns of the mountains; in their work: the orange, red and black of the back of the retina; and in life.

Gabi Hollows

Motivation, Orange, People

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

Phillips Brooks

Fire, Special, Genius

Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.

John Irving

Jobs, Memories, Writing

John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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I want to take my rightful share of life by force, I want to give lavishly, I want love to flow from my heart, to ripen and bear fruit. There are many horizons that must be visited, fruit that must be plucked, books read, and white pages in the scrolls of life to be inscribed with vivid sentences in a bold hand.

Tayeb Salih

Book, Heart, Carpe Diem

Tayeb Salih (1991). “Season of Migration to the North”, p.5, Heinemann

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Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made.

Sam Abell

Photography, Photographer, Scene

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When young we have a vivid sense of basic values like trust and warm-heartedness, which we tend to neglect in today's competitive world as we grow up, yet from birth we all have a need for affection. The emotions we experience today have not changed much over the last few thousand years, but the interest increasing numbers of people are showing in their inner world and how their emotions work is a sign of maturity.

Dalai Lama

Trust, Buddhist, Growing Up

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I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

Justin Cronin

Wall, War, Fall

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Whatever the source of the leader's ideas, he cannot inspire his people unless he expresses vivid goals which in some sense they want. Of course, the more closely he meets their needs, the less "persuasive" he has to be, but in no case does it make sense to speak as if his role is force submission. Rather it is to strengthen and uplift, to make people feel that they are the origins, not the pawns, of the socio-political system.

David McClelland

Uplifting, Thinking, Ideas

"Leadership: what every leader should know about people". Book by Robert A. Portnoy (p. 16), 1986.

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