Heightened Quotes

130 quotes by 122 authors

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of… — Steven Tyler
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their performances while winning… — Timothy Gallwey
Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast… — Viswanathan Anand
I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or… — Ali MacGraw
The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
Fling yourself at life and let yourself feel what you do feel upon the very tick of the second; snatch the images of life that… — Mina Loy
All of us , I believe , carry about in our heads places and landscapes we shall never forget because we have experienced such intensity… — Roger Deakin
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry… — Alexander Smith
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger
The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't… — Nikki Reed
The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything. — Ray Stevenson
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumour,… — Rebecca Solnit
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened,… — Tony Hale
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits. — Patrick O'Brian
I admire David Hare as much as I admire certainly any writer ever. What I like about his writing is it is very conscientiously, in… — Bill Nighy
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. — Nathan Fillion
Divination seems heightened and raised to its highest power in woman. — Amos Bronson Alcott
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill
The aesthetic serviceability of objects of beauty is not greatly nor universally heightened by possession. — Thorstein Veblen

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