When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Throw in the intensity of emotions that come with that bittersweet summer sandwiched between high school graduation and the rest of your… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“The doctrine of waiting for confirmation is one of the greatest time killers” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. — Arthur Schnitzler Copy Share Image
“You are the remedy of intensity i need in my life, to spin me out of the miserable monotony of working on… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
..though silence must add intensity to your intimate moments, it must also shrivel your soul to lie beside someone who doesn't talk… — Nuala O'Faolain Copy Share Image
It's great, it's a creative process! It's something that I've been hungry for and I feel like I'm getting fed every day!… — Kendra Kassebaum Copy Share Image
I brought killer intensity to my workouts… It’s not enough to just show up and do the workout. You have to bring… — Lynn Jennings Copy Share Image
In my productive activity, every time a type grows beyond the stage of its genesis, and I have about reached the goal,… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
When I came from horizontal vertical straight all old stuff then suddenly I go also again in curved lines. And there I… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
There is a curious law of art...that even the attempt to reproduce the act of seeing, when carried out with sufficient energy,… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it.… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
No.” He wouldn’t lie about that. Not to her. And not because she’d rip him to pieces when she discovered the truth.… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
As I grew up, everything started getting grey and dull. I could still remember the amazing intensity of the world I'd lived… — Keith Johnstone Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are in themselves bad and should be prevented or minimized, irrespective of the race, sex, or species of the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To understand the intensity of driving an F1 car, you have to be in it. When you're driving a 750hp machine at… — Jenson Button Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The ugly reality is that peer pressure reaches its greatest intensity at just the age when kids tend to be most insensitive… — Walt Mueller Copy Share Image
The first thing one notices about Jill Abramson is her short stature. The second is her intensity. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
When God calls, it has the intensity of a shout and the authority of a summons. When He calls, He secures His… — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
I've approached so many things in my life with such intensity that I want to approach motherhood with dedication and focus. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
I love the intensity of the Psalms. No-one ever sounds bored about God or about life in the Psalms. — Matt Redman Copy Share Image
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There was a point after the whole intensity of the Clash finally subsided when I just found that painting grounded me in… — Paul Simonon Copy Share Image
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how… — Bela Fleck Copy Share Image
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“Writing is like great sex … the more intensity you invest the bigger the … err… reward.” — Wendy S. Hales Copy Share Image
The etiquette is higher consciousness, sensitivity, gentleness, gracefulness, intensity, power, and knowledge. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Find people who love you unconditionally, surround yourself with them, and bring them the same level of intensity. — Sean Stephenson Copy Share Image
Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
