Top 144 Lucid Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes it's easier for me to do films about, and with, women, because I have more distance, I'm more lucid.

For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference.

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.

To break out of the chaos of my darkness Into a lucid day is all my will. My words like eyes in night, stare to reach A centre for their light: and my acts thrown To distant places by impatient violence Yet lock together to mould a path of stone Out of my darkness into a lucid day.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid

I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

Anger is the energy that people use in order to act. But when you are angry, you are not lucid, and you might do wrong things. That is why compassion is a better energy.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are. We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still.

Lecter is so lucid, so perceptive; he's trained in psychiatry... and he's a mass murderer.

I have never seen a more lucid, more lonely, better balanced mad mind than mine.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

Great wine requires a mad man to grow the vine, a wise man to watch over it, a lucid poet to make it, and a lover to drink it.

Photography's central sense of purpose and aesthetic: the precise and lucid description of significant fact.

The moment is never perfect. It's like that right now - in my head I'm being super lucid, but you never are. You're always fumbling.

Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.

When I approached Volume 1 of "Lucid," I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

What you do affects your awareness field. When you do something selfless your attention feild is more clear, more lucid.

Only the most lucid can see their love as comedy.

Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.

I did invent the idea of using lucid dreaming to treat sleep disorders, but I was influenced by many real-life researchers - from forefathers like Freud and Jung to Stephen Laberge and Rosalind Cartwright, who explore lucid dreaming and parasomnias.

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

...the play of the toughest and most lucid mind are at the same time both lavished andsquandered.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

I would describe myself as quite sane and lucid, which is why I'm still alive.

I had to think whether, after 50 years of hard slog, I was still lucid and fresh enough for the job.

Lucid dreaming is dreaming but you being aware that you're doing it.

Love is not a mere emotion or sentiment. It is the lucid and ardent responses of the whole person to a value that is revealed to him as perfect.

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation.

When I approached Volume 1 of 'Lucid,' I realized I could tell something that only exists in four issues, or I could roll the dice a bit and approach this as Season 1 of a TV show.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.

George Smith shows how many of the prophet’s followers embraced plural marriage during a period when the LDS Church was emphatically denying the practice … [and he tells this in] a lucid writing style.

I can't point to a moment or incident that made me see that this business, this putting down words on paper, was what I would do for the rest of my lucid life. But apparently, that is my calling.

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

Papa always makes it clear that he would like to know me as much more rational and lucid than the girls and women he gets to know during his analytic hours.

By science calmed, over the peaceful soul, Bright with eternal Wisdom's lucid ray, Peace, meek of eye, extends her soft control, And drives the puny Passions far away.

My style is ambiguous and lucid.

He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

It's a beautiful lucid dream that has language that I can fiddle with.

The thing about lucid dreams is that it's not like the real world where you are constrained by all sorts of things, including the laws of physics - you can do magic.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.

I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know.

lucid and quiet his voice hovered above the listeners, like a light, like a starry sky.

A towering theoretical achievement of exceptional elegance...Like most great books, Sociobiology is unpedantic, lucid, and eminently accessible.

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.

What is a photograph? For me, a fragment of quick-silver, a lucid dream, a scribbled note from the subconscious to be deciphered, perhaps, over years. It is a monologue trying to become a conversation, an offering, an alibi, a salute.

Lucid dreaming lets you make use of the dream state that comes to you every night to have a stimulating reality.

The Declaration of Independence is so lucid were afraid of it today. It scares the hell out of every modern bureaucrat, because it tells them there comes a time when we must stop taking orders.