Intense Quotes · Page 26

Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed…

— Joanna Scott

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

— Edwin Land

I'm an intense singer, so I look like I need the toilet every time I hit a high-note.

— Tulisa

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever…

— Scott Raab

There is nothing abstract about pain. It is specific, it is real, and, when it is intense, it is world destroying.

— Albert Camus

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or…

— Meg Cabot

“The way he felt about her was too big. Too intense. And he didn’t want it to end.”

— Sidney Halston

I do my independent stuff where it's real acting if you like. Intense, drama stuff. I love me actions.

— Vinnie Jones

The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you…

— Nat Faxon

I was very competitive growing up. I can't even play chess anymore because I used to play tournament chess in school. There's…

— Chris Hardwick

The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a…

— Sigmund Freud

If you want to be in fashion you have to absolutely love what you do, because it's more than a job -…

— Lori Goldstein

Today [people] are ready to take emergency cures, whatever they are, if it's violence, if it's a fascination with serial killing or…

— Leonard Cohen

[T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the…

— Robert Klein

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I eat a balanced diet. The secret is to watch your portions, but I also work out a lot. Working out a…

— Adriana Lima

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the…

— Barbara Sher

Maintaining news cycle is the job. It's always been the job. This is just more intense. You find out what the story…

— Ezra Klein

I always try to find something or some way of delivering the lines or playing the scene that you wouldn't normally expect.…

— Greg Grunberg

The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead…

— A. B. Simpson

Music has its own emotional embodiment. It carries an emotion with it. When you associate a lyric with the music, it's much…

— Debbie Harry

In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger…

— David Fontana

Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer…

— Petrarch

I knew that this was something that was going to be an intense experience, just from the way I typically approach my…

— Michelle Monaghan

But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abyss of nothingness and the intense…

— Haruki Murakami

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of…

— Yann Martel

My heart beat Beats me senselessly Why's everything Gotta be so intense with me...

— Katy Perry

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the…

— Stendhal

The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.

— Edith Hamilton

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

— Charles Spurgeon

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity?

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“This thrilling, intense, cloud nine feeling was love. I loved Thomas. The realization was both terrifying and empowering.”

— Kelley R. Martin

Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.

— Alice Duer Miller

Sleep is my best friend when we're shooting 'Game of Thrones' because there are very long days and intense scenes.

— Maisie Williams

“It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.”

— Brynn Kelly

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid,…

— Carol S. Dweck

I needed someone really intense, but also somebody with a lot of theatrical credibility.

— Denis Leary

I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am…

— Elia Suleiman

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

— George R. R. Martin

This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt