Best 261 quotes in «intense quotes» category

I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

I do not know why I have always been fascinated by science or why I have been driven by the intense desire to make some original contribution. And although I have had some degree of success as a scientist, it is hard to say precisely why.

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.

I don't really cook meat. I eat a bit of seafood but I'm not really into meat and the idea of cooking it is pretty intense.

If I'm looking really intense, it's not because I'm trying to be mystical. It's because I'm thinking '[Dagnabit], that was supposed to be a 7th chord'.

I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or how to act. I was literally living from day to day.

I found Celebrity Gangster intense, dramatic, a real page turner.

If those guys with better genes trained as hard and intense as me, I wouldn`t stand a chance!

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

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.

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

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels.

I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films.

I have no delusions that I'm the only source of improving people's lives or that I'm even the right source. My style is intense, and it's not going to be right for everybody.

I have passed all my days in London, until I have formed as many and intense local attachments as any of you mountaineers can have done with dead nature.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

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.

I have Internet fame. Real fame is more intense.

I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger. A lot of times I'll draw or paint late into the night. When I am really concentrating, I kind of lose track of what I am doing.

I know the pleasure you get from making your films. The intense involvement in every aspect: the acting, the camera, the colors, the costumes, even the hair and makeup. Editing is thrilling. Everything to do with films is absorbing - everything but the money part, the business. But I'm deeply glad I've had that experience.

I like everything in my room has to be in order. If there's a wrinkle in the comforter, I'm stretching it out. But this is only when it comes to my room. Outside of there, I'm not as intense.

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.

I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.

I lived on a houseboat in Amsterdam for a year. It was intense, and it's possible that I even had a few blackouts.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.

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

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

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

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.

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it.

Intense concentration for hour after hour can bring out resources in people that they didn't know they had.

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

It also will come through natural forces, as a lot of intense storms also will be brewing. There's a lot for us to get caught up into if we choose, but they are warning us not to get caught up in it. It's simply a mirror of the times that we don't necessarily have to respond to and react to from within.

I prefer to make a film that people have a really intense reaction to than have a film that people feel ambivalent about.

I really like to keep my palette small but to be very intense, very myopic.

I see fans all the time. They're always very complimentary and they're always very eager to talk and to share their experiences or get a selfie. They're really, really loyal. And intense.

It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.

It is a remarkable thing that some of the most optimistic and enthusiastic people you will meet are those who have been through intense suffering.

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

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.

It's not a lot, but we have 8,000 people following us. I get the biggest kick out of it, to hear words that I wrote and chords that I wrote being sung by somebody else. It's a true honor, and it might sound intense, but it's one of the most rewarding parts of the songwriting experience.

It's very intense to be in front of a live audience. It's just an amazing experience. It's dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It's electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you're on this other planet.

It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.

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.