Intense famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
-- Alanis Morissette -
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe, magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
-- Albert Camus -
The most intense patriotism always flourishes in the rear.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
There are so many kinds of love, and they're all very intense for me.
-- Ali MacGraw -
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
-- Allen Wheelis -
Custom, which diminishes the intense, increases the moderate, pleasures.
-- Andrew Michael Ramsay -
Every relationship I've been in becomes long-distance because of work. It's never worked out. It puts an intense strain on the relationship, and at a certain point, it becomes too difficult.
-- Anton Yelchin -
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids-and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
-- Arianna Huffington -
The British fans are very intense, maybe even more so than fans in the U.S.! They're great.
-- Austin Mahone -
The older I get, the more of a recluse I turn into. I love the social aspect of my work. It’s like a commune and gets very intense and very sociable. Then when I am not working, I shut myself away, so I can see myself living up a mountain.
-- Ben Daniels -
Be intense, be ready to go, but just enjoy it.
-- Brock Larson -
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
-- Burton Silverman -
Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
Even though the third season of Necessary Roughness was only ten episodes, they were an extremely intense bunch of episodes, especially toward the finale.
-- Callie Thorne -
Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him.
-- Catherine Deneuve -
It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.
-- Charles Duke -
I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.
-- Clay Guida -
Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict.
-- Clint Eastwood -
High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
My work life is intense. But I love what I do.
-- David Rubenstein -
I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.
-- Deidre Hall -
I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.
-- Demian Bichir -
I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.
-- Donald McCaig -
If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!
-- Dorian Yates -
It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.
-- Edward Hoagland -
I'm a pretty intense person. And I don't know if intense is fun. I put myself through the wringer. That's just how I work.
-- El-P -
I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.
-- Elvis Stojko -
I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.
-- Emily Browning -
Her glare was so intense that you completely forgot she was wearing pink.
-- Eoin Colfer -
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
-- Eric Hoffer -
We who are old know that age is more than a disability. It is an intense and varied experience, almost beyond our capacity at times, but something to be carried high.
-- Florida Scott-Maxwell -
Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.
-- Frances Harper -
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos.
-- Francis Ford Coppola -
Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
-- Franz Kafka -
The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
-- Gail Godwin -
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history
-- Gavin Newsom -
And the relationships that happen become so intense, deep, involved and complex and really hard to say goodbye to. The hardest part of the show is saying goodbye when it's all done. It really breaks you.
-- Genevieve Gorder -
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.
-- Genevieve Gorder -
That subject has lost its one time appeal to economists as our science has become more abstract, but my interest has even grown more intense as the questions raised by the sociology of science became more prominent.
-- George Stigler -
Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.
-- Geri Halliwell -
I'm a very intense person. When I go after something, I want to go after it with everything I have. I want to push myself to the edge.
-- Greg Norman -
I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.
-- Grimes -
The life of a Repo Man is always intense.
-- Harry Dean Stanton -
poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.
-- Helen Bevington -
Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
-- Henry Spira -
I am not a prophet in any sense of the word, and I entertain an active and intense dislike of the foregoing mixture of optimism, fatalism, and conservatism.
-- Herbert Croly -
You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.
-- J. K. Rowling -
The intense perfumes of the wild herbs as we trod them underfoot made us feel almost drunk.
-- Jacqueline du Pre -
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.
-- Jacques Yves Cousteau -
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points.
-- James Joyce -
Not necessarily narrow so much as impatient, intense.
-- James Salter -
Happiness is often at its most intense when it is based on inequality.
-- James Salter -
I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.
-- Jane Wiedlin -
Engaging it produces an intense force, which in turn produces a mutation in consciousness. You become who you really are ...
-- Jean Houston -
Both iCarly and Victorious fans are so hardcore and intense.
-- Jennette McCurdy -
For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.
-- Joan Miro -
For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
-- Joaquin Phoenix -
Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.
-- Jodie Foster -
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?
-- Joe Hill -
Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.
-- John Dos Passos -
I love New York. But the energy is so intense
-- John Galliano -
It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
-- Jon Secada -
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
-- Joni Eareckson Tada -
Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.
-- Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero -
Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
-- Josh Lucas -
She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.
-- Krist Novoselic -
Shame is such an intense emotion. It just can drive you.
-- Kyra Sedgwick -
It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
-- Laura San Giacomo -
I see history as really cyclical in terms of the intense idealism, and the desire to create a better life outside of societal norms.
-- Lauren Groff -
Your eyes were too intense to stare into for long.
-- Lucy Christopher -
I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
-- Mandy Patinkin -
I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.
-- Margaret Atwood -
A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share.
-- Margaret Bourke-White -
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
-- Martha Reeves -
When you go from movie to movie, it's like going from family to family. You work with people for really intense hours on really long days and a bond happens. So even when a movie is terrible, you love it.
-- Matthew Lillard -
Dance has such an intensity to it. You become, in a way, an intense person.
-- Mia Wasikowska -
The medium's gaze is brief, intense, and promiscuous. The shelf life of the moral causes it makes its own is brutally short.
-- Michael Ignatieff -
A warrior knows that his days are few which leads him to an intense experience of life that is unknown to others.
-- Milton Katselas -
I'm not intense at all. I'm always relaxed.
-- Mohamed Al-Fayed -
I'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time, I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with.
-- Orlando Bloom -
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.
-- Parker Posey -
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.
-- Paul Schullery -
Innovation requires resources to invest, and you can see many companies pulling back and going into an intense protective mode in a major extended period of financial distress.
-- Peter Senge -
India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.
-- Pierre Pettigrew -
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
-- Rahul Dravid -
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
-- Robert Smith -
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
-- Robert W. Service -
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.
-- Royden G. Derrick -
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.
-- Scott Raab -
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
-- Sean O Faolain -
My dad's intense love for art and music is what drove me to learn music
-- Shreya Ghoshal -
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
-- Sigmund Freud -
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
-- Steven Holl
