Margaret Keane

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

American Artist

Kyp Malone

I don't think that three minutes of music on a commercial record is going to bring paradise, but I feel like there is power in music and power in our words and power in what we put out into the world.

American Musician

Anne Bancroft

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

American Actress

Bertrand Russell

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

British Philosopher

Frei Otto

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

German Architect

Christopher Columbus

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Italian Explorer

Cree Summer

My father said, 'Let's raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,' and that's what they did.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

Africa is a paradise. You meet people who look at life differently. They love the adventure.

Swiss Celebrity

Rebecca Mader

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

English Actress

Dario Argento

Italian Director

Used figuratively to emphasize extraordinary beauty or delight in a place or situation.

Figurative use

Conveys feelings of joy, contentment, and tranquility often associated with 'paradise'.

Feelings attached

'Paradise' often refers to an eternal, blissful place in religious texts, seen as a reward.

Religious context

In religious contexts, 'paradise' can be a metaphor for achieving spiritual goals or contentment.

Metaphorical promise

'Paradise' illustrates a highly desirable or perfect state, which can vary for everyone.

Personal perspective

It's often used subjectively to describe what one personally finds peaceful or perfect.

Subjective experience

This historical meaning is rarely used nowadays but adds to the word's rich heritage.

Archaic sense

Reflects old times' luxury and exclusivity associated with a nobility's hunting ground.

Historic luxury

Communicates a concept of perfection that may be unrealistic but is deeply longed for.

Idealistic notion

Used poetically to evoke vivid imagery or express deep emotions about idyllic experiences.

Poetic expression

 I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest in my own imagination, and so things I created, things I built were good things to be building just because I was making them, and I think that's such an important idea. But this room was my paradise, essentially,

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 little nervous I want to help you calm down so maybe you should maybe you should put some on for the interview this little offer you know one of this fabulous says whether it's a floral fusion or paradise wins you know they'll have their chance you know what we will have have them geared for both male or female you know solid

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 But is there something sad about a world without sadness? Our cavemen ancestors and favorite poets might not want any part of such a paradise. In fact, the only things about sadness that seem universally agreed upon are that it has been felt by most people throughout time, and that for thousands of years,

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 extremely valuable and important to our project working on birds of paradise and so for me I was a biologist mostly working on birds of paradise that I could see from the ground or near the ground and there's a lot of them but there are plenty that I wouldn't have been able to have access to at all if it

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 it was for planet earth one and birds of paradise always a kind of a holy grail subject for wildlife cameramen these are famously difficult birds they're relentlessly hunted they're nervous they're in the crow family they're incredibly clever and yeah they were definitely going to

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 positioned to the Sun so we don't burn but not too distant so we don't turn to Goldilocks said it best we are just like this paradise where we are given medicine from trees not coincidentally but because like the song says we are family literally everything every

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 person and long slender jaws to catch fish I think that this animal makes our imaginary and fictional dragons look very boring very few plant eating Giants inhabit our Predators paradise the ones that do venture here have to fend off

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 three galactic terraformers shaped it into a paradise. When their work was done, they sought out new worlds, but left the source of their power three powerful golden hexagons,

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 instance that little matter of versions and paradise old-fashioned orientalism comes into play here the word used four times is hurris rendered as dark-eyed maidens with

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 this kind of body language helps to reinforce relationships and keep the peace but there's trouble in paradise large bottlenose dolphins also live here