Intense Quotes

• If someone harmed or tortured or killed one of my children I'd feel everything almost anyone else would feel. I'd probably have intense feelings of revenge. But these feelings would fade. In the end they're small and self-concerned. Only the grief would last.

  

  Galen Strawson
  • Children
  • Feelings
  • Concerned

• I never had any urge or desire to do like a big spectacular movie with thousands and thousands of extras. I'd rather watch paint drying. But put me in a room with three people having a hard time, like a character situation, and then you're into a really intense portraiture kind of concept.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Character
  • Kind
  • Situation

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

  

  Thomas Harris
  • Long
  • Body
  • Wave

• The ultimate cause of the October Crisis was the ideological embrace of Milton Friedman's warped but still dominant view that "the only social responsibility of business is to make a profit for its shareholders," and until that socially and economically counterproductive - and empirically, legally and ethically inaccurate - view is corrected, we will continue to have the increasing and more intense crises of global capitalism that we have seen recur with ever greater frequency over the past forty years. Sadly but clearly, the lessons have still not been learned.

  

  Chip Pitts
  • Past
  • Responsibility
  • Crisis

• Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.

  

  Allen Wheelis
  • Desire
  • Despair
  • Intense

• It's pretty intense to have someone the camera looming there when you are singing a song but it's sort of invigorating too.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Song
  • Camera
  • Intense

• I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed.

  

  Mohamed Al-Fayed
  • Intense
  • Relaxed

• I play for the intense challenges that the game on the highest levels present. The whole team enjoys playng exciting soccer for the fans and my part in that makes me feel good about myself. The whole concept of teamwork is what keeps us all going. It's my role to create scoring chances, and to come through for my teammates is extremely satisfying.

  

  Mia Hamm
  • Team
  • Chance
  • Challenges

• I get angry about stuff, I get very emotionally intense about stuff and that's how I get it out - with books, with the band, on my own onstage, but it's always kind of a wail.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Angry

• Being isolated and on-location can be helpful in terms of being completely dedicated to the work, but somebody like me can also be dangerous in terms of this intense sort of void that you kind of potentially fall into.

  

  Michael Raymond-James
  • Dangerous
  • Dedicated
  • Isolated

• Computer science is not as old as physics; it lags by a couple of hundred years. However, this does not mean that there is significantly less on the computer scientist's plate than on the physicist's: younger it may be, but it has had a far more intense upbringing!

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Mean
  • Couple
  • Computer

• Matter is regarded as being constituted by a region of space in which the field is extremely intense . . . . . . There is no place in this new kind of Physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality.

  

  Paul Davies
  • Reality
  • Kind
  • Physics

• The amazing thing about an artistic collaboration is that it is as intense and intimate as a romantic one. Sometimes even more so.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Sometimes
  • Collaboration
  • Artistic

• If you are driven by certainty you can't grow. If you are driven by certainty if somebody messes with you, you can get very intense, even violent, depending upon the person's personality.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Personality
  • Intense
  • Certainty

• The writing is really hard. You're alone. It really pulls it out of you. You pull it out of your head. But when you're a director, you're shopping - you're picking this actor, you're picking this scene. It's like the most intense kinetic high-speed shopping of all time. You sit in a chair and it will all come rushing at you like a wind tunnel.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Writing
  • Actors
  • Scene

• One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

  

  Paul Epworth
  • Relationship
  • Intense
  • Producer

• Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it, the essence of your desires is activated, and the Universe begins to bring it to you. The more intense your positive feelings, the faster it is coming to you. (It is as easy to create a castle as a button).

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Desire
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Giving
  • Desire
  • Sin

• Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner that has both logic and emotion in it, is that the world has a structure persons could like; be stronger by.... If the world is the oneness of opposites - and music says it is - the world is given an everlastingly sensible basis; for what could be more sensible that to be calm and forceful at once, reposeful and intense at once?

  

  Eli Siegel
  • Music
  • Emotion
  • Manner

• I don't think I would live outside of the Northwest. I think the quality of life in Portland is really good. People move from intense, high-powered jobs, and move to Portland, work half as much and live twice as good.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Quality
  • Intense

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