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  • I remember all the important fights. Vividly. In detail. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
  • Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in their exploration of the tenuous nature of human relations. These are poignant stories of 'paradise'-Hawai'i-with all that 'paradise' entails of the transience of sensuous beauty. -- Joyce Carol Oates
  • Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • I remember so vividly the first song I ever wrote. It was called 'Different People.' -- Gwen Stefani
  • Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass! -- Paul J. Meyer
  • You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you. -- Tadao Ando
  • The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in 'Lawless.' John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. -- Dane DeHaan
  • Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we're atheist. -- Anthony Hopkins
  • For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive. -- Al Purdy
  • I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history. -- Antonio Tabucchi
  • I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer. -- Sue Monk Kidd
  • In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal of 1964 was to wrap two lower Manhattan buildings. We never got permission. -- Christo
  • My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip. -- David Suzuki
  • I gave my heart to the Lord, and I remember the incident vividly. The Lord spoke to me. I know that sounds funny. It was not an audible voice or anything of that nature. -- Jimmy Swaggart
  • January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
  • It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine. -- Dick Cavett
  • The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you? -- Tennessee Williams
  • I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. -- Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people. -- Randy Forbes
  • I had been told from school onwards that the best definition of a human being was man the tool-maker - yet I had just watched a chimp tool-maker in action. I remember that day as vividly as if it was yesterday. -- Jane Goodall
  • When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly. -- Haruki Murakami
  • The more closely you get in touch with your dreams, the more able you are to make them real. The more vividly you consider how you want your world to be, the more real and effective tools you will have for making it so. -- Ralph Marston
  • I remember the day of my baptism very vividly. I was baptized in the baptismal font in the Tabernacle on Temple Square. Those who were being baptized put on white coveralls, and one by one were gently taken down the steps into the water. -- James E. Faust
  • We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes. -- Constantin Stanislavski
  • The ecstatic insanity of romantic pursuit can be so enhanced by music that entire romantic conquests, victories and ruinous, crushing defeats can be tied to songs to such a degree that it's almost unbearable to listen to them again, as they bring back the memories so vividly. -- Henry Rollins
  • I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there. -- Julie Adams
  • I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one. -- John C. Maxwell
  • He read vividly. -- David Brooks
  • I vividly remember bowling 20 + games a day, 2 or 3 times a week. -- Joe Tex
  • Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes! -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality. -- Brian Tracy
  • When you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it then becomes sacred. -- Allen Ginsberg
  • Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly. -- Christopher Fry
  • Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion. -- Michel de Montaigne
  • If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. -- Rick Atkinson
  • My strength and my weakness is that I see normally impersonal events vividly and personally. -- Newt Gingrich
  • The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it. -- Joseph P. Farrell
  • When I'm in this state, everything is pure, vividly clear. I'm in a cocoon of concentration. -- Tony Jacklin
  • Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another. -- Winston Churchill
  • My mother was electric onstage, and I vividly recall the extraordinary power she had over her audiences -- Lorna Luft
  • Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass. -- Paul Meyer
  • Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. -- Frederic Farrar
  • Seneca brings vividly before us a picture of the various scholars assembled in a school of the philosophers. -- Frederic Farrar
  • Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn't. -- Mignon McLaughlin
  • I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book. -- China Mieville
  • The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. -- Mary Antin
  • I wrote through darkness, vividly seeing: my passivity was not a crime; my desire to trust was not a flaw. -- Aspen Matis
  • EVENTIDEDark and light strikingeach other,vividly etching wild colorsthrough the horizon.The charm of sunset makes me wantto scurry home. -- Tara Estacaan
  • For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. -- D. H. Lawrence
  • The harvested fields bathed in the autumn mist speak of God and his goodness far more vividly than any human lips. -- Albert Schweitzer
  • Like most professional golfers, I have a tendency to remember my poor shots a shade more vividly than the good ones. -- Ben Hogan
  • One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible. -- Ron Rash
  • Good writing is clear. Talented writing is energetic. Good writing avoids errors. Talented writing makes things happen in the reader's mind---vividly, forcefully... -- Samuel R. Delany
  • Cathy Clamp is a visionary author, creating new worlds that are both strong and vividly drawn. Adventure and excitement at its best. -- Yasmine Galenorn
  • Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely. -- Haruki Murakami
  • Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary. -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
  • An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water. -- Arthur Eddington
  • There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films. -- J.P. Donleavy
  • We always attract into our lives whatever we think about most, believe in most strongly, expect on the deepest level, and imagine most vividly. -- Shakti Gawain
  • Less fear; more hope: just four little four-letter words, but when they are vividly felt as emotion, they are behavior changing, life changing, world-changing. -- Louis Tice
  • There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. -- Kurt Hahn
  • I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser. -- Anthony Horowitz
  • I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them -- Maurice Sendak
  • The Prohibition era is so vividly depicted in Lawless. John Hillcoat does a remarkable job of rooting his film in such a tangible reality. -- Dane DeHaan
  • Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • There is something very appealing about a room which one occupied as a child; it brings back one's childhood more vividly than anything else I know. -- D.E. Stevenson
  • The secret of achieving prosperity lies in so vividly keeping yourself centered in the inner focus of affluence that you literally exude the consciousness of it. -- Eric Butterworth
  • An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography) -- Allen Ginsberg
  • We never live so intensely as when we love strongly. We never realize ourselves so vividly as when we are in full glow of love for others. -- Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing She Loves You in August 1963. -- Gordon Lightfoot
  • When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives. -- Albert Einstein
  • He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. -- Boris Pasternak
  • The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks. -- Russ Carnahan
  • In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it. -- Elissa Schappell
  • Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve. -- Marcus Buckingham
  • Where two factions see vividly each its own aspect, and contrive their own explanations of what they see, it is almost impossible for them to credit each other with honesty. -- Walter Lippmann
  • No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words. -- Herbert Spencer
  • Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift. -- Harry Mathews
  • I wanted to put all my family stories down for my girls, and I remember everything so vividly. I just wanted to put everything down while I still can remember it all. -- Sissy Spacek
  • The discoverer and the poet are inventors; and they are so because their mental vision detects the unapparent, unsuspected facts, almost as vividly as ocular vision rests on the apparent and familiar. -- George Henry Lewes
  • What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers. -- Nicole Krauss
  • I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive, disoriented, and out of it. -- Oliver Sacks
  • I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here. -- Adelaide Clemens
  • The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties. -- Susan Stewart
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  • I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.' -- Adelaide Clemens
  • The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories. -- Jarod Kintz
  • I do remember vividly sometime after puberty when I'd answer the phone at home and the callers began to say, 'Hi, Bill!' That's when I knew Dad and I had the same voice. -- Willie Geist
  • Only two kinds of feelings remain in our memory vividly: love and hate. Love recalls how many years we could live, but hate how many years we only existed wasting the given opportunities to live. -- Elmar Hussein
  • I came to the US as an immigrant and I recall vividly those first few years in California, the brief time we spent on welfare, and the difficult task of assimilating into a new culture. -- Khaled Hosseini
  • There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain. -- China Mieville
  • Reprogramming the unconscious beliefs that block fuller awareness of creative/intuitive capabilities depends upon a key characteristic of the mind, namely that it responds to what is vividly imagined as though it were real experience. -- Willis Harman
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