Heightened Quotes

130 quotes by 122 authors

In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the… — Yann Martel
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a heightened interest in,… — Charles Gwathmey
Black people loving and losing is something we donâ€™t see enough of. Weâ€™re always in these heightened situations like something big is happening, something funny… — Ava DuVernay
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the… — Charles de Lint
Angling is somewhat like poetry, men are to be born so: I mean, with inclinations to it, though both may be heightened by discourse and… — Izaak Walton
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or… — James Fenton
I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living. And 'Castle' has that.… — Nathan Fillion
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance… — Jean Houston
Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I… — Edvard Munch
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather… — Joyce Carol Oates
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and… — Pope John Paul II
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in… — George Saunders
After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge… — Edward Snowden
It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad… — Steven Wright
Tommy had felt alone in a crowd before, even inferior to everyone in a crowd, but now he felt, well, different. It wasn't just the… — Christopher Moore
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
...The human perception of this energy first begins with a heightened sensitivity to beauty. — James Redfield
I do not accept any absolute formulas for living. No preconceived code can see ahead to everything that can happen in a man's life. As… — Martin Buber
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great… — Tom Robbins

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