Quotes About Intensity

It was the character of the Packers, man. We played for sixty minutes. We let it all hang out. There was no tomorrow for us. We got the adrenaline flowing, and we just let it go, man.

Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.

Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.

Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire.

It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.

Sometimes a man is intensely, even passionately, attached to suffering — that is a fact.

[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.

He sat on his horse unmoving, a somber black figure in startling contrast to the vivid colors about him, the sun dazzling on his white gold hair. Unlike the duke and his bastard, there was no laughter in his face, and his eyes were not searching the housefronts for diversion-instead, he was staring intently straight up at my window.

I did not dare look back at Domenico. Sprawled catlike in the silver chair, he was watching me; I could feel his eyes resting on my bare shoulders as actual as a touch.

Since you're probably going to die, you might as well know- I love you nearly as much as I hate you." His eyes fluttured just once as he murmured, "Me too.

My hunch is that Sylvia Plath was not Especially fun company. A drama queen, thin-skinned, And skittery, she thought her poems were ordinary.

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.

If soup isn't hot enough to make a grown man wince, it's undrinkable.

Devils can be quite comical little animals, intense and wild. The Looney Tunes cartoon character "Taz" is an exaggeration, of course, because devils only spin like Taz if they're kept too confined.

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Yes, I have loved, as no one on earth ever loved, with an insensate and furious love, so violent that I wonder it did not break my heart.

I longed to be able to gather my whole life-force into a single impulse, and transmit it to her and blow into her frozen remains the fire that was consuming me.

Yes, I have loved as none in the world ever loved—with an insensate and furious passion—so violent that I am astonished it did not cause my heart to burst asunder. Ah, what nights—what nights!

Pleasure has turned into passion much more quickly than I should ever have thought possible.

This calls for a very special plan of psychology and extreme violence

if you cannot hate you cannot love. If you cannot bite you can not kiss. If you cannot curse you cannot bless. Who cannot be a good hater will be a poor lover.