Intense Quotes
1056 quotes by 892 authors
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If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
— Robin Williams
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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton,…
— A. N. Wilson
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of…
— E. O. Wilson
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I've been doing comedy longer than I haven't been doing comedy, as I was performing for three years before I even got on 'The Tonight…
— Steven Wright
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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
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There's something about being in front of a live audience that's fun. It's a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you…
— Steven Wright
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When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it…
— Steven Wright
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Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.
— Ravi Zacharias
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I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good,…
— Audre Lorde
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At present I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. It often seems to me that night is still more richly coloured than the day;…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private…
— Pablo Neruda
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...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it…
— Patti Smith
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Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
— Gustave Flaubert
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The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,…
— E E Cummings
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Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion…
— Ian Mcewan
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At first the music almost repelled me, it was so intense, and this man made no attempt to sugarcoat what he was trying to say,…
— Eric Clapton
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Meaning and morality of One's life come from within oneself. Healthy, strong individuals seek self expansion by experimenting and by living dangerously. Life consists of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement…
— Kim Stanley Robinson
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...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on…
— Louisa May Alcott
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