Top 100 Quotes About Intense
#1. You have to be intense. This only comes from the CEO, this only comes from the founders.
Sam Altman
#2. A wave of intense happiness washed over me, and I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it.
Heather Cocks
#3. It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.
Dito Montiel
#4. I didn't have that intense ambition to be a musician or an actress. I just enjoyed it. And by enjoying it, because I loved it, it enabled me to get better at what I was doing, because there was a love behind it.
Lauryn Hill
#5. The pressure to give A grades is intense. It comes from the students and increasingly from their parents as well.
Jon Appleton
#6. 2014 was a year of intense social upheaval. In truth, the same could be said for most every year. There is no standstill in a world filled with so many people, scrambling for so much.
Roxane Gay
#7. Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
#8. To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
#9. If women ran the world we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days.
Robin Williams
#10. Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living.
Andrei Codrescu
#11. Barbara [Stanwyck] and me in our only scene alone in Titanic. It wasn't much of a scene, but it sparked one of the most intense and rewarding relationships of my life.
Robert Wagner
#12. My stomach knotted, the nausea so intense I began heaving on the ground. Smell, taste; all of it evil. A darkness so pure, I knew I could never defeat it. My fear strangled my light.
Angela McPherson
#13. I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.
Hillary Clinton
#14. Jerking off the universe is perhaps what all philosophy, all abstract thought is about: an intense, and not very sociable pleasure, which has to be repeated again and again.
Susan Sontag
#15. Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.
Meg Cabot
#16. The At-mun-shi were as pagan as all the tribes in Africa, but they were peaceable and they were, as well, intense in their love of freedom.
Elizabeth Yates
#17. I can't remember feeling this way ... since well, ever. It's new. It's scary. It's exciting. It's nerve-racking. It's calming. It's every single emotion I've ever felt balled up into an intense urge to grab hold of her and never let go.
Colleen Hoover
#18. 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.
Sophie Jordan
#19. Because for Amy, love was like drugs or booze or porn: There was no plateau. Each exposure needed to be more intense than the last to achieve the same result.
Gillian Flynn
#20. Once you have drunk from the water of unconditional love, no other well can satisfy your thirst. The pangs of separation may become so intense that seeking the affection of the Beloved becomes an obsession.
Ram Dass
#21. She had kept well behind the safety barrier her entire life, but now she was standing there at the edge of the precipice for the very first time, fumbling blindly with the realization that there were other ways to live, at how intense and rich life could be.
Katarina Bivald
#23. I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.
Mary MacLane
#24. Babineau was always intense, but these days he's downright weird.
Stephen King
#25. Everybody has a 'past', some more intense than others. But it's the past. I don't care what you've done. You're not what you've 'done'.
Alysha Speer
#26. Very intense first summer out, to be 18 years old and never having gone on a date, never having smoked a cigarette, never had a drink, even a sip of beer, never kissed a girl, all of those things. It made for a fairly intense first year out.
Peter Jurasik
#27. Daniel murmured something like yes, he wouldn't miss it,but he was clearly distracted. He kept looking away from the woman. His eyes darted around the lawn, as if he sensed Luce behind the roses.
When his gaze swept over the bushes where she crouched,they flashed the most intense shade of violet.
Lauren Kate
#28. Evan Lucien, if it is my last act upon this Earth," he says, his eyes intense and shadowed in the lantern light, "I will make you come.
Lilly Black
#29. Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.
Jason Silva
#30. For a moment she could feel his emotions again, as close as if they were her own. Awe mixed with fierce protectiveness, and a thread of pain so intense she wanted to take the hurt from him.
Stephanie Garber
#31. The severe and at times almost condemning glance - a glance that seems to pass judgment - with which the homosexual appraises every good-looking young man he may encounter, is in reality a quick but intense meditation on his own loneliness
Jean Genet
#32. To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.
Stacy Pershall
#33. On one thing all who knew him were agreed: the secret of his usefulness lay in his intense and passionate life of prayer and his unshakeable confidence in God. 'When
Faith Cook
#34. I find the erotic such a kernel within myself. When released from its intense and constrained pellet, it flows through and colors my life with a kind of energy that heightens and sensitizes and strengthens all my experience.
Audre Lorde
#35. This form of love is like the pain
of childbirth: so intense
it's hard to remember afterwards,
Margaret Atwood
#36. Cultivate an appreciation and passion for books. I'm using passion in the fullest sense of the word: a deep, fervent emotion, a state of intense desire; an enthusiastic ardor for something or someone.
Cassandra King
#37. Baby-carrying means your hearts are close together. It's a very intense and beautiful way to bond with your baby, very intimate. It's also easier than a stroller.
Kelly Cutrone
#38. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
Haruki Murakami
#39. A woman of intense feeling, head thrown back, hair wild, lips open upon a cry of unbelievable pleasure.
The enchanted.
A warrior both disciplined and passionate, his whole being focused in the moment.
The enchanter.
Now he is bending down to her, drinking her cries ...
Elizabeth Lowell
#40. War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#41. I had to bear the sunken glare of his fierce crow-footed eyes if I wanted to know; and so I bore it, reflecting how much certain forms of evil are akin to madness, derived from intense egoism, inflamed by resistance, tearing the soul to pieces, and giving factitious vigour to the body.
Joseph Conrad
#42. People talk of calf-love with wistful disdain, but mine was as intense as any emotion I knew until I crossed the frontier, years later, when I discovered that all loving is a loving of life in the midst of death.
Hugh MacLennan
#43. 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.
Sri Chinmoy
#44. Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka
#46. In a world where time is a sense, like sight or like taste, a sequence of episodes may be quick or may be slow, dim or intense, salty or sweet, causal or without cause, orderly or random, depending on the prior history of the viewer.
Alan Lightman
#47. Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.
W. H. Auden
#48. Neil had never seen him play like this, so intense and fast and determined, but Andrew had promises to keep and a goal to defend. With
Nora Sakavic
#49. Falling into her was like falling into a star, the heat so intense he was consumed in the blink of an eye.
Abigail Strom
#50. A child in the position of confirming a negative stereotype may respond with especially intense anxiety and reduced motivation, amplifying a negative self-fulfilling prophecy.
Laura Beck
#51. I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.
Edward Zwick
#52. A novel can enlarge the empathy and imagination of both its author and its reader, and my experience, that sense of enlargement is most intense when I'm transported beyond the narrow limits of my daily life.
Anthony Marra
#53. Some of the most beautiful things are those we can only enjoy from afar. The unattainability makes the attraction more intense.
Penelope Ward
#54. The days, I can forget, baby doll. But the nights ... " His voice dropped to a hoarse growl, filled with intense feeling. "The nights will be torture knowing I won't have this for eternity.
Kristen Ashley
#55. That looked like an intense little conversation," she said. "Who called?" "President of the United States," he answered, starting the engine. "Okay, fine," Cori sighed. "Don't tell me.
Brett King
#56. The shallower our arguments, the more intense we became.
Don DeLillo
#57. And thus being totally preoccupied, he rode so slowly that the sun was soon glowing with such intense heat that it would have melted his brains, if he'd had any.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#58. Nancy fell in love with Viola at first sight of her. A coup de foudre, she said, more intense and overwhelming than any form of romantic love. Mother and daughter were each a world to the other, complete and unassailable.
Kate Atkinson
#59. He leaned toward her, his face only a breath away. His intense look captured her fully. His words rumbled from his chest. If you love me, kiss me.
Melanie Dickerson
#60. During their separation, something had happened to Annabeth's feelings. They'd grown painfully intense-like she'd been forced to withdraw from a life-saving medication. Now she wasn't sure which was more excruciating-living with that horrible absence, or being with him again.
Rick Riordan
#61. We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And that sometimes art can offer us more intense experiences of the world than life itself can.
Anthony Doerr
#62. Living as human being and as a divinity.
moving from tension into relaxation,
from relaxation into trance,
from trance into a more intense contact with other people.
from that contact back into tension and so on,
Like The Serpent swallowing its own tail.
Paulo Coelho
#63. I've had my taste of intense fame, and I've got it out of my system. Now I'm free to choose parts which fulfil me in different ways.
Gina Bellman
#64. Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.
Elie Wiesel
#65. I mean, I love winning, but losing is a much more intense feeling.
Jennie Finch
#66. The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt
#67. Longing, for everyone, is always there, isn't it? More intense at some times than others. You get closer to less longing - an odd metaphoric phrasing, I realize - then, you are further and longing more than ever again.
Susan Minot
#68. Love is jealous, and ingenious in self-torture in proportion as it is pure and intense.
Victor Hugo
#69. The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.
Phillip Adams
#70. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. Sure, there's the talent, but there also has to be the will. Give me human will and the intense desire to win and it will trump talent every day of the week.
Larry Ellison
#71. The New World is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). There is some intense, bloodless violence and the beautiful underage lead actress (15-year-old Q'orianka Kilcher) may cause cardiac arrest among some viewers.
Manohla Dargis
#72. I have family obligations and all that stuff. I get my kids six weeks in the summer, which is a real intense period of time. I'm with them every minute of the day.
Tom Berenger
#73. Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
Alan Furst
#74. You will always reap greater rewards by exercising at the more intense side of the spectrum.
James Driver
#75. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
Galen Rowell
#76. I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
Rahul Dravid
#77. I missed talking to you, and playing with you, and touching you, and seeing you smile. I missed just ... sitting next to you. I've never missed anyone or anything that much
Mila Ferrera
#78. Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
Diana Krall
#79. When pleasure reaches its height passions are
intense, and feelings know no bounds;
As the mouth of the "divine turtle"
disgorges ts "silvery stream.
Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng
#80. Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
Joe McNally
#81. I gallop and jump and ride young horses with intense pleasure.
Jane Smiley
#83. His bonding scent became so intense it was all she could smell. Xcor
J.R. Ward
#84. You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
Chin-Ning Chu
#85. An Emraan Hashmi film has come to guarantee certain ingredients: An intense, grey central character, a beautiful girl - if he gets lucky, then two - couple of kisses, a few bold scenes, fabulous music and a climatic twist.
Emraan Hashmi
#86. It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement.
Ben Brantley
#87. I am very intense. I can't help it. That's the way I am. You can't be in this business without being intense. The pressure and tension get to you; it can't help but show on you.
Irene Cara
#88. I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.
William Boyd
#89. When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
Henry Rollins
#91. Yeah. You know what I think?"
What?"
So intense was Tibby, she had practically shoved the phone into her ear cavity.
She has big boobies.
Ann Brashares
#92. 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.
Rod Lurie
#93. I have a motto: My job is not to make up anybody's mind but to make the agony of decision making so intense that you can escape only by thinking.
Fred W. Friendly
#94. Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.
William S. Burroughs
#95. It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
Laura San Giacomo
#96. Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!
L.M. Montgomery
#97. I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
Steven Holl
#98. People go to the zoo and they like the lion because it's scary. And the bear because it's intense, but the monkey makes people laugh.
Lorne Michaels
#99. Are you okay?' 'What do you mean?' 'You stopped talking. Just sat there looking intense.' 'Sorry. I had a stretch of interior monologue. Slightly lyrical. Takes a while to get through.
Michael Marshall Smith
#100. Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
Rachel Swirsky
