I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story. — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
We cannot will to have insights. We cannot will to have creativity, but we can will to give ourselves to the creative… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“If your idea is not against your conscience or the will of God, go for it” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
When a book, any sort of book, reaches a certain intensity of artistic performance, it becomes literature. That intensity may be a… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Whoever plays against me has to match my intensity. That's something I take great pride in. — David Lee Copy Share Image
Death is not cold and frightful. Death is the sun in all its powerful intensity. — June Havoc Copy Share Image
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that everything is relative. We need the bad to appreciate the good, and vice versa. We need something unexpected… — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Few literary depictions of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake match the intensity and visceral power of those in Flacco's gripping first novel.… — William Bernhardt Copy Share Image
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
What makes fantastic declarations believable is, in part, the vehemence with which they're proffered. Again, in the world of spirituality as well… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
I want to express the utmost intensity of the color, bring out the quality, make it expressive. — Adolph Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Something, most certainly, happens to a diver’s emotions underwater. It is not merely a side effect of the pleasing, vaguely erotic sensation… — Barry Lopez 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
Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
There are two outstanding issues in democratic politics these days. One is the relationship with the media, which is now 24/7, and… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems... but Hopkins was kind… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
In the studio, it took me a long time to work out how to make paintings that had the intensity that I… — Michael Craig-Martin 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
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
