Intense Quotes

Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

Things changed with the discovery of neutron stars and black holes - objects with gravitational fields so intense that dramatic space and time-warping effects occur.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The intense atom glows A moment, then is quenched in a most cold repose.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

The exercise of all the senses is as intense pleasure, as anyone will find, who recovers the use of one after being deprived of it.

That memory made a lump form in my throat as I remembered his face, serious and gorgeous, those brown eyes intense and passionate as he spoke up for me and convinced the others of my value.

Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.

I like playing really super-intense, live-in-the-moment characters. It asks me to not phone it in. It's impossible to phone it in. Every American boy has spent his childhood pretending to get shot.

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

In high school, I definitely fancied myself an intense guy, which is so lame.

I'm afraid I'm just too intense to have soft ideas, you know, about what to read when you're trying to pass the time.

I don't know how people will remember this series [of the Twilight Saga] at all. It's crazy how intense people are.

You learn quite a bit about your film from test screening audiences. With both comedies and movies that are intense, you need to calibrate the film and see how audiences react.

Every individual should have a purpose in life which is worthy of intense effort-and constantly work toward the definite goal ahead.

I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

When one is loyal to the truth, we say he is a person of integrity. When one is loyal to the truth under intense opposition, we say he is a person of great integrity.

The moment something happens to one you love, it's twenty times more intense. You experience pain and enlightenment on a much vaster scale.

I've been so lucky that there's been such an intense and positive response to the line. It's one of the craziest things.

A primary campaign can get very intense and times nasty. But it's never going to be quite as vicious as between-parties rivalry.

Just being friends with people now for over 15 years, you realize what we all came out of. What we came out of was the intense feeling of growing up. It sounds kind of cliché, but it's true.

You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.

Playing roles that are intense and damaged has always come more easily to me than doing comedies or lighter stuff - that would be taking a huge risk for me.

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done.

I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.

When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

[Cancer] didn't make me more intense about not working more and just having fun more. It didn't do that either.

The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex.

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.

I was immediately swept up in Ariane's story. Equal parts thrill-ride and love story, The Rules is intense and emotional. This book stays with you long after you finish.

You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.

What do you call it when two people have intense shared history? when nothing can separate them? Soul Sisters

Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.

Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.

The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free.

Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mahâbhârata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?

(I'm) much more ... standoffish and hot headed, more intense (than Rashad). Not so dead set on doing the right thing more so than the right now thing; at that age anyway.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.

When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.