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Things somehow seem more real and vivid when one can apply somebody else's ready-made phrase about them.

Aldous Huxley

One reason coral is so pleasing is that it's a nice bridge between orange and red. It's a softer alternative for people who appreciate the energy of vivid colors.

Dixon Bartlett

He used a lot of words. He tried to be very specific and descriptive, which is something I try to be as well. But also his literary take on what I call the American teenage experience ... rock 'n' roll always sounds best when covering that topic.... Springsteen had teenage dramas that were so vivid.

Craig Finn

The guides are the vivid representations of the tourism attractions.

Li Hong

Ann Beattie is a writer for and of her time. Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

Sherman Alexie

I think it might help to keep his memory vivid, ... People might be led from one book to the other.

Galway Kinnell

The one glaring stat from this year is 30 players came here to play and only 29 went home. That will be a powerful thing for us to go through and is the vivid reminder of our 2005 season. But the support of our community, not just that one night but throughout the season ... we're just fortunate to be in a town that has the same passion for baseball and its players that we do.

Jim Richards

People associate him with anti-communism because of the media images. He is vivid in our minds in a way that other characters aren't.

Thomas Doherty

This provides vivid insights into what (a terrorist) situation might be like. It makes me even tenfold more worried -- if that's possible -- than I was before.

Larry Wilkerson

Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart.

Eric Hoffer

I know some songs popular on the campus are not good, and I really want to learn vivid, good ones, but so far I fail to find only a few.

Li Ruoyu

I remember it, but it's not quite as vivid. I'd like to go back and see just where I was during that horrific battle.

Gordon Schnulle

We still tell Jonathan stories. It's not a taboo subject. But there are times it's very intense. We go back to that night (we were notified of his death), and it's, wow, still very vivid and I suspect it always will be.

William Etterling

The statistics seem to be in Jill Carroll's favor. People tend to lead to the conclusion of the beheadings we've seen on television when they hear of someone being taken hostage or kidnapped because those images are the most vivid.

Peter Mandaville

Every Remembrance Day he came for tea (and scotch!) and was a vivid reminder of our country's heroism.

Adrienne Clarkson

Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate.

Robert Stevenson

Even though one of them is about an Edinburgh junkie and one's a little boy of eight in Manchester, you want them to always portray their world in such a vivid way that the audience can disappear inside the story.

Danny Boyle

We thought this tape was such a vivid representation of corruption and was an opportunity for the people of Providence to witness such.

Jim Taricani

The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

Seth Low

For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and vivid life of its own.

Spencer Tracy

It conjures up vivid images in the mind, and it makes the actor's job easier because you have something to draw upon to build your character.

Anthony Chisholm

Actually, that one is the most vivid, ... I don't know, maybe I blacked out in the national championship.

Andrew Larson

I'm hesitant to anoint this team at this point, because I have vivid memories of the first two games.

Tim Floyd

He was extremely talented, but in a different way. His images are very vivid. He used empty space in an extremely artistic way. He was not so much looking at the history of art. He looked at the images of movies and advertising. He was not looking backwards, but he was always looking at the present in a way nobody had done before.

Francesco Bonami

This has made clear in a particularly vivid way that your life chances, not only in ordinary times but in times of disaster, vary a lot with the kind of resources your community has.

Robin Lovin

He was such a vivid character. And it was a character he made up - this slightly ghoulish, heavy-set man who made up jokes on his TV series.

Richard Schickel

It's still vivid in my mind. I can still picture that whole day.

Cory Withrow

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Scott Meyer

Vivid and reflective, documentary and visionary, re-imagining the city of New York with the same urgency that ponders the opening words of Genesis, this is a passionate, artful and re-readable book.

Robert Pinsky

Because there are such vivid stories and characters in Bruce Springsteen's music, we decided to let the lyrics do a lot of the storytelling for us, instead of depending on dialogue. In this case, I chose the songs first and then designed the story around them.

Meredith Stiehm

I particularly love Legorreta's use of vivid pink, set off by sun and the tough, tropical nature of Mexico.

Richard Rogers

She has such an ability to draw these characters that are so vivid and so original. But at the same time they're realistic, not over the top.

Tasha Alexander

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

George F. Will

Her prose has become known for its vivid particularity, the details of the way we live.

Ann Beattie

Your language is really vivid. It was a lot to take in. What would you do to revise it?

Julie Wilson

Compare [the 1913 Open golfers] to the class of pros we have now. They're colorless, ... Sports doesn't have enough vivid personalities [nowadays].

Mark Frost

Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting -- intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.

Uta Hagen

It took a heavy toll on the kids. He was so close to them, it was hard for them to recover and they were in a lull for a while. They were missing his presence. Even now, the memory is so vivid because they walk into the gym and see the (state championship) trophy from (2004).

Charles Williamson

A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.

Kirk Hoza

This is an incredible contest, and Vivid would love to make someone's dream come true: Spend an entire day on-set with the beautiful Vivid Girls.

Howard Levine

The sexual parts are not only vivid examples of the body's dominion; they are also apertures whose damp emissions and ammoniac smells testify to the mysterious putrefaction of the body.

Roger Scruton

I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good results, I was sure of my skill, but this... Well, this was more than I expected. It was a surprise for me, too.

Alexandra Orlando

I believe it is the most vivid and compelling demonstration that the war in Iraq is not only needlessly taking lives of human beings, but it is needlessly diverting precious resources.

Brian Becker

He was the consummate professional; as good as anyone and better than most at broadcasting baseball. He gave a complete, vivid picture. He had a great enthusiasm and love for the game; and a great love for the people in the game.

Dave Van Horne

He gave a very vivid description. I have all my teeth.

Patrick Booth

One of our main jobs in the current period is to strengthen cooperation with Chinese media. This kind of cooperation is expected to make our China reports more varied and more vivid. And there will be a bright future for business cooperation and exchanges between Chinese and Arabic media.

Ezzat Shahrour

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