Intensity Quotes (page 25)

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• confused
• end
• house

At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour upon hour it grew upon me that I was responsible, because no one else was interested--interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which everyone has some vague right at the end. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• personality
• intellectual
• focus

Almost everything about Afghanistan was troubling Mullen. As Obama was giving intense focus on the war, Mullen was feeling more personal responsibility. Afghanistan had been marked by 'incredible neglect,' he told some of his officers. 'It's almost like you're on a hunger strike and you're on the 50th day, and all of a sudden you're going to try to feed this person. Well, they're not going to eat very quickly. I mean, every organ in the body is collapsing. The under-resourcing of Afghanistan... Bob Woodward

• work
• guitar
• materialism

I'm pursuing soundtrack work in the southern California area and down the line I plan to make a moody, intense acoustic album. Not all acoustic, but an acoustic - oriented guitar record that I've already written most of the material for. Ronnie Montrose

• alone
• also
• you

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. Mike Myers

• processes
• processed
• procession

My self-editing process is intense. George Murray

• little
• short
• life

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Lewis Mumford

• work
• worked
• intensely

I've always put myself intensely into my work. Josefina Vazquez Mota

• soul
• mystic
• consider

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence. Jim Morrison

• search
• saying
• love

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me. Wesley Morris

• emotional
• intensive
• downing

My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. Alanis Morissette

• thinking
• people
• intensely

I think some people think I'm a smarty-pants. Some people think I'm intense, some people think I'm super-esoteric and nuts. Alanis Morissette

• competition
• play
• player

Unless a player goes in for intensive play and tournament competition, two racquets are sufficient. Helen Wills Moody

• flower
• art
• blue

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? James Montgomery

• memories
• wishes
• memorial

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Michel de Montaigne

• evening
• painting
• feeling

I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness. Joan Miro