Intense Quotes · Page 31

I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.

— Amy Chua

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing…

— Carol Ann Duffy

“The room was safe and warm and beautiful. The memory filled me with a love so intense, it knocked the air from…

— M.K. Harkins

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

— Scott Brooks

I played with the youth national team, I played in some CONCACAF games, and it's always physical; it's always intense.

— Christian Pulisic

[Clayton Kershaw ] is intense. He's a competitor.He's extremely fun to play behind.

— Chase Utley

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

— Billy Bob Thornton

Successful cult memes induce intense social interaction behaviour between cult members. This trips the attention detectors.

— Keith Henson

Ironically, white America will catapult books about race to the top of the best-seller list, even as racism remains a national open…

— Marita Golden

I think it's something that really speaks in your head - a very strong melody. But at the same time, if the…

— Mikal Cronin

My wife gives me a hard time, whether it's playing games with people we don't know too well and I'm intense. I…

— Ryan Tannehill

Jealousy we understood and thought natural... But envy was a strange, new feeling for us. And all the time we knew that…

— Toni Morrison

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense…

— Alfred Kastler

'Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that…

— Neil Cross

I love emotional, intense stuff; it's easier to grab onto than just being simple. Being simple and relaxed can be the hardest…

— Mark Pellegrino

Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant…

— James Martineau

Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the…

— Novalis

I once volunteered to teach English as a second language, and I thought that I would have all these intense relationships with…

— Mike White

Porter Rockwell was that most terrible instrument that can be handled by fanaticism; a powerful physical nature welded to a mind of…

— Fitz Hugh Ludlow

These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always…

— David Nicholls

The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a…

— Thomas Mann

One day a hummingbird flew in-- It fluttered against the window til I got it down where I could reach it with…

— Georgia O'Keeffe

SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;…

— M. John Harrison

One of the things that's good for me is that I can go from one art form to another. Because I think…

— Rebecca Miller

Nostalgia is the aching realization that you can't go back again. The longing, no matter how intense, can never be met.

— R. C. Sproul, Jr

“t felt like stepping into a spa, or a dream, or a memory she hadn’t known she missed.”

— D.L. Maddox

I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

— B.o.B

The act of sharing with readers was at first too much of an intimate thing. But it evolved into an intense necessity…

— Vera Nazarian

The main characteristics of romantic love are craving: an intense craving to be with a particular person, not just sexually, but emotionally.

— Helen Fisher

With actors, I have very close, intense working relationships with actors in theater.

— George C. Wolfe

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

— Lou Barlow

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify…

— Anonymous

Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Even if it is only for a matter of moments, because those moments bring with them a Love so intense that it…

— Paulo Coelho

“God, if just holding hands with him feels this intense, I can't imagine what everything else with him would feel like.”

— Colleen Hoover

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually…

— Helmut Schoeck

A considerable number of persons are able to protect themselves against the outbreak of serious neurotic phenomena only through intense work.

— Karl Abraham

I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.

— Stephenie Meyer

People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends…

— Keith Henson

Nothing can last forever. There isn't any memory, no matter how intense, that doesn't fade out at last.

— Juan Rulfo