Quotes About Intensity

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.

Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.

deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania.

the intense power of stillness she possessed, which nevertheless conveyed the impression of a wild untamed spirit in an exquisitely civilized body

For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.

A man in love is an awful sight.

No, my death should take place in a blaze of excitement. I would live before I died.

And for five long hours the little man sat motionless, blinking his eyelids like a cat, his green eyes flickering and becoming steadily greener and greener.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice. I did not wonder that the blood rose to John's face in a crimson tide.

There is nothing in the world so enjoyable as a thorough-going monomania...

Re-entry taught me a new sort of fear that was slow and dull rather than quick and thrilling...the hardest part of reentry to a humdrum life was not recovering from the bad stuff. It was missing the good times, the friendship, intensity, fear, sense of purpose, the sheer exotic escapism of it all.

There's a thin line between obsession and derangement, and I'm not at all sure the professor hasn't crossed it.

The world is full of men with strange obsessions who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

This is it! Stay low, don't bunch up, and run like hell!

answered in a low, breathless voice.

That's how it is with me. I keep burning. I am the burning man.

Madness, yes . . . but heartfelt madness.

Such was the nature of obsessions: no quarter given for the human cost.

It was really implemented in me from day one that everything I do out there cannot be misconstrued as fake. That's not to say I won't do things for a chuckle, but my own personal style is to be intense and snug. I want it as real as humanely possible.

After Rilo Kiley broke up and a few really intense personal things happened, I completely melted down. It nearly destroyed me. I had such severe insomnia that, at one point, I didn't sleep for five straight nights.

Extreme success results from an extreme personality and comes at the cost of many other things.