Quotes About Vividness

I can speak these words and perhaps you can see these things clearly because you are using your imagination. But I cannot imagine these things because I lived them, and to remember them with the vividness I know they should have is impossible. They are lost to me.

She thought in exclamation points

I believe that the vividness experienced in the reading of words is automatically modulated by the constant activation of the reasoning centers of the brain that are used in the process of cocreating the representation of reality the author has intended. By contrast, the visceral vividness portrayed on television has the capacity to trigger instinctual responses similar to those triggered by reality itself -- and without being modulated by logic, reason, and reflective thought.

Valuable elements may be easier to experience in art and in anticipation than in reality. The anticipatory and artistic imaginations omit and compress, they cut away the periods of boredom and direct our attention to critical moments and, without either lying or embellishing, thus lend to life a vividness and a coherence that it may lack in the distracting woolliness of the present.

The voice took Damian right back to a time when Joyce, he and Laurence were sitting at the table playing blackjack. It was all crisp edges and clusters of colours in his head, Joyce's purple cardigan, the gold buttons, the flowers on the table, the orange curtain. The vividness, the immediacy of the image, brought tears to his eyes.

I do it so it feels real.

Niech wzrok twój w sÅ'oÅ"ce, dech twój w wicher przejdzie...JesteÅ› wszystkimi kolorami jednoczeÅ›nie, w najwiÄ™kszej ich jaskrawoÅ›ci.

I'd like to destroy you a few times in bed

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature

Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them (...) you bring them out triumphantly, and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them. That's what comes of the higher education.

Broadly speaking, the thing you need to avoid is the general as contrasted with the particular (reptile creates a less vivid image than does rattler); the vague as contrasted with the definite (them guys is less meaningful than those three hoods who hang out at Sammy's poolroom); and the abstract as contrasted with the concrete (to say that something is red tells me less than to state that it's exactly the color of the local fire truck).

You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it, but to actually make it alive.

Consistency in opinion is the slow poison of intellectual life, the destroyer of its vividness and energy.

The forms of the central and surrounding deities... should not be protruding like a clay statue or cast image, yet neither should they be flat like a painting. In contrast, they should be apparent, yet not truly existent, like a rainbow in the sky or the reflection of the moon in a lake. They should appear as though conjured up by a magician. Clear appearance involves fixing the mind one-pointedly on these forms with a sense of vividness, nakedness, lucidity, and clarity.

Al contrario, el esfuerzo físico la llenaba de energía, el agotamiento se convertía en vivacidad y gracia, los días eran largos, lentísimos, y el mundo (percibido como un naufragio interminable) le mostraba su cara más vivaz y la hacía tomar conciencia que la suya, naturalmente, también lo era.

Tatal ei radiaza o mie de culori, opal, rosu-capsuna, ruginiu-inchis, verde crud; un miros de ulei si metal, senzatia de cheie potrivita in yala, zornaitul cheilor lui pe inel in timp ce merge.

Me divertía. Me había bebido dos lavafrutas de champagne y la escena se había convertido ante mis ojos en algo importante, elemental y profundo.

Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.

Instead of answering her as soon as he saw her hair grow electric, her face more vivid, her eyes like lightning, her body restless and jerky like a racehorse's, he retired behind this wall of objective understanding, this gentle testing and acceptance of her, just as one watches an animal in the zoo and smiles at his antics, but is not drawn into this mood. It was this which left Lilith in a state of isolation - indeed, like a wild animal in an absolute desert.

Kendi içime dal?yor ve içimde bir dünya buluyorum! Ama böyle yaparken düzenli ve canl? bir güçle de?il, daha çok sezgiyle ve karanl?k bir arzuyla hareket ediyorum. O zaman duyular?m bulan?kla?maya ba?l?yor ve ben, dü?lerin aras?nda dünyaya gülümsemeye devam ediyorum.

You gotta know the details to paint a really good picture in the reader's mind on what's happening.

I didn't want realism anyway: I wanted things to be highly coloured, simple in outline, without ambiguity, which is what most children want when it comes to the stories of their parents. They want a postcard.

Life without a phone is riskier, lonelier, more vivid.

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.