Vivid Quotes - Page 13

• There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal.

  Abraham Lincoln

  People, Honor, Belief

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.46, Fordham Univ Press

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• In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

  William James

  Strong, New Experiences, Years

  William James (2007). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.625, Cosimo, Inc.

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• In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.

  Marian Seldes

  Book, Perfect, Shining

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• The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

  Bette Midler

  Growing Up, Ideas, Bombarded By

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• I have one vivid memory of one of the days that the marches were taking place. We were in a Catholic, predominantly Polish and Lithuanian neighborhood. Chicago is a place where people define themselves by their parish and by their ethnicity.

  Sara Paretsky

  Memories, Ethnicity, People

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• When you're filming in Russia in Catherine's Palace, and you're in the real place where the Tsar's ball really happened, all those years ago, it does so much of the work for you. It's so vivid. You escape into this different time through the costumes, the sets and the atmosphere.

  Lily James

  Real, Russia, Years

  Source: collider.com

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• Making all of those words work together is difficult. It took a lot of cleaning up, a lot of rewriting scenes in order to make them more vivid. I used everything - every oddity I've ever seen on the side of the road, every interesting memory I could make relevant.

  Mary J. Miller

  Memories, Oddities, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Why are homosexuals addicted to soap opera? Because our lives are a vivid situation.

  Don DeLillo

  Opera, Soap, Homosexual

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• That whole day [ of the space flight] is very vividly impressed on my memory because it was such a new experience. We hadn't done that before. And then I've recalled it so often since then I think that it's a - it's remained very vivid over the past 50 years, seems to me like about a week or two instead of 50 years.

  John Glenn

  Memories, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Hip-hop had become overly aspirational and shiny, full of vivid technicolors. Cosmetic fronting was not part of the ethos of our get down. Our get down was more blue collar. Our aspirations were to shine a light on the plight and experience of the inner cities of America.

  Lyor Cohen

  Cities, America, Light

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion itself... Instead of a vivid conception and a living belief, there remain only a few phrases retained by rote; or, if any part, the shell and husk only of the meaning is retained, the finer essence being lost.

  John Stuart Mill

  Essence, Phrases, Shells

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Everything stems from real experiences but I do also have a very vivid imagination. A song lyric gets easily carried away with itself and can end up somewhere I'd never have predicted.

  Imogen Heap

  Song, Real, Vivid Imagination

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Me and Biggie share a storytelling ability--he was an actor on wax, too. His stories were so vivid and torrid, he made you feel them. And we both have the hardness. When I come out on the mic, you know it's me.

  Black Rob

  Biggie, Stories, Actors

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• I come from a very wiry and long-lived race. Some of my ancestors have been centenarians, and one of them lived 129 years. I am determined to keep up the record and please myself with prospects of great promise. Then again, nature has given me a vivid imagination.

  Nikola Tesla

  Race, Years, Vivid Imagination

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• When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

  Guillermo del Toro

  America, Way, Window

  Source: collider.com

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• The first scene I ever appeared in, it was the first scene I ever shot [during my] first day on set. I walk up to my mom with a plastic bag over my head and she says that her clothes better not be on the floor, not that a plastic bag is not a safety hazard or anything. I think it's a really cute scene and also just a very vivid memory.

  Kiernan Shipka

  Cute, Mom, Memories

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• In working towards ways of reading Mann, so that his own advances in suggesting new perspectives will become more vivid, I do some fairly standard philosophical analysis of ideas in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer.

  Philip Kitcher

  Philosophical, Reading, Ideas

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I've been accused of being a little pedantic here and there, but I don't buy that criticism. I'm telling it like I see it. You don't have to buy it. You don't have to like it. You don't have to listen to it at all. I'm not trying to convince people of things, other than the fact that I'm trying to make as vivid as I can my own feelings and experiences.

  Bruce Cockburn

  People, Feelings, Trying

  Source: progressive.org

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• I have very vivid dreams and nightmares, and my biggest fear is of some kind of dystopian future where we're advanced in every way except in our humanity.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Dream, Humanity, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the first that the last one I was in. It is a classical maxim that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country; but whoever has seen the horrors of a battlefield feels that it is far sweeter to live for it.

  John S. Mosby

  Country, Sweet, War

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• If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: time.com

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• I have a very vivid memory.

  Billy Eichner

  Memories, Vivid Memories

  Source: www.npr.org

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  Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Scare, Comfort, Capable

  "Speechless" by Jonathan Safran Foer, www.newyorker.com. September 12, 2011.

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• Pixar has outdone itself in visual magic and vivid storytelling.

  Peter Travers

  Magic, Pixar, Storytelling

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• It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

  Sy Montgomery

  Bullying, Nature, Children

  Sy Montgomery (2006). “The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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