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Quotes About Intensity

Las dos veces anteriores, sólo su sabor había causado que los instintos de Noelle se propulsaran sobre una cornisa que no podía ver hasta ser muy tarde. Él era una droga para ella, capaz de destruir cualquier barrera, rápidamente adictivo, calentándola inexorablemente, haciéndola girar más y más hasta el fondo de lo que podría llegar a ser una profunda y oscura caverna de soledad, o un brillante y devorante lecho de pasión.
~ Gena Showalter
I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity.
~ Gene Tierney
Kai's fingers bit into her shoulder hard enough to make her refocus. 'If you pass out on me now, I'm going to kill you,' he said conversationally.
~ Genevieve Cogman
If New York was a piece of music, then this was the ominous pause leading up to an intense climax.
~ Genevieve Cogman
She ignores me. Clearly there's no stopping her until she's read every last word.
~ Gennifer Choldenko
If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.' At first there can be a friction between our expectations of time and Tarkovsky-time and this friction is increasing in the twenty-first century as we move further and further away from Tarkovsky-time towards moron-time in which nothing can last—and no one can concentrate on anything—for longer than about two seconds.
~ Geoff Dyer
There was an aggressiveness I had never seen in him before; by the end of the session, he was almost psychotic.
~ Geoff Emerick
I was totally psyched. I heard if you sit in the front row at a Knicks game, the players will, like, actually sweat on you. That would be SO sweet. Ed. Note: NO IT WOULDN'T (eeeew)
~ Geoff Rodkey
Insisting that his writing did not offer a philosophy of life, Hardy claims that each poem was an 'impression', intensely subjective and evanescent.
~ Geoffrey Harvey
Zu viel! Zu viel! Mein ganzes Sein ist in dem einen Augenblick. Jetzt stirb. Mehr ist unmöglich.
~ Georg Buchner
live with power and energy that undeniably transcends their natural capacities and with an intensity of commitment that far exceeds anything they have previously demonstrated in their lives
~ George Barna
The sign of the poet, then, is that by passion he enters into life more than other men. That is the gift-the power to live....[Poets] have been singularly creatures of passion. They lived before they sang. Emotion is the condition of their existence; passion is the element of their being; and, moreover, the intensifying power of such a state of passion is also must be remembered, for emotion of itself naturally heightens all the faculties, and genius burns the brighter in its own flames.
~ George Edward Woodberry
Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
~ George Farquhar
William's eyes glowed like two amber coals. She met his gaze and flinched. No emotion reflected in the amber, only intelligence, cruel in a way the eyes of a hunting Mire cat were cruel. She saw no worry, no softness, no thoughts at all, only waiting. He seemed barely human now, not a man but some feral thing, knitted of darkness and biding his time for an opportunity to pounce.
~ Ilona Andrews
When I first saw you, it was like being thrown from a shuttle before it touched the ground. I fell and when I landed, I felt it in every cell of my body. You disturbed me. You took away my inner peace…
~ Ilona Andrews
It was one thing to be attracted to bad boys, something I usually didn't suffer from. It was another to be attracted to bad men. Mad Rogan was a really bad, bad man. If he wanted something, he bought it, or persuaded you to give it to him, or just simply took it. I had to make sure he didn't want me. Because if he decided he did, it would be on his terms, and I wouldn't like it. No, I would like it, which was even worse.
~ Ilona Andrews
He focused on me completely, the same way he did when he asked me a question and waited for an answer. It was almost impossible to look away. If he ever fell in love—which probably wasn't possible, given that he was likely a psychopath—his would be the kind of devotion people fantasized about.
~ Ilona Andrews
I'm in love with someone else." "But why, Rogan? What is it about her? Is it because she's violent like you?" "I was asleep," he said. "And she woke me up.
~ Ilona Andrews
To the left Derek raised his bloody muzzle from the ruined back of the fifth reeve. Don't bite! Dumbass. Perfect wolf for you—isn't happy until he's got poisonous shit smeared all over his teeth.
~ Ilona Andrews
This could be made much simpler if we just locked Caldenia up until it's over," Sean said. "Sometimes you say things that make me wonder about you." "No need to wonder. I'm a simple man. I love you and I will protect you. And the inn. Even if I have to murder Caldenia and everyone else to do it." I stood on my toes and kissed him. "What if we don't murder anybody?" The corners of his mouth curved. "No promises.
~ Ilona Andrews
Ooo." Hugh sucked the air in, narrowing his eyes. "Mean. I like mean.
~ Ilona Andrews
When I went off the rails, I didn't do it halfway. No, I flipped a few times, caught a lot of air, and then exploded in a fiery crash.
~ Ilona Andrews
His eyes were empty. There was no sadness, no anger, just the watchful emptiness of a predator.
~ Ilona Andrews
You know what? No: if he ever fell in love, it wouldn't be great romantic devotion. It would be an exercise in frustration and lust, and at the end of it his significant other would strangle him.
~ Ilona Andrews