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Quotes About Intensity

Hockey players have fire in their hearts and ice in their veins.
~ Author Unknown
Of course everything is blooming most recklessly: if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Storms... surging, raging... calling all our cells to attention — roaring, wailing unabashedly smashing...
~ Terri Guillemets
Summer has set in with its usual severity.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1826
Some men expend all the fury of a twelvemonth in one red-hot paragraph of five minutes.
~ Thomas De Witt Talmage
...the darkness of the hollow in the centre of a wild rose is one glow of orange fire...
~ John Ruskin, "Colour," 1870
...all my soul within me burning...
~ Edgar A. Poe, "The Raven"
To be sure, every football play is in a sense a short narrative. First come the signals of the quarterback. That is the preliminary exposition. Then the plot thickens, action becomes intense and a climax is reached whereby the mood of tragedy or comedy is established.
~ Heywood Broun, 1922
As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast.
~ Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
I love, till my heart is red as February and purple as March.
~ Emily Dickinson
I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios burn themselves out and eat themselves up and they are careless about themselves... I swing between happiness and misery and I cry easily. I am a mixture of my mother's determination and my father's optimism. And how do I explain what I am? Part prude and part non-conforming and I say what I think and I don't dissemble...
~ Vivien Leigh, interview, 1960
Scorpios may seem light, happy, and cheerful but are secretly carrying some of the darkest emotions you can imagine.
~ @ZodiacFacts
Scorpio motto: Do it with passion or not at all.
~ Internet meme
Scorpio is the most intense sign of the Zodiac, and is associated with sexual activity and with the symbolism of death and rebirth. Their emotions run deep. They may suffer in life, but their pain leads to important personal transformation. Scorpios are a shrewd judge of other people's motives. When they work out their issues to be more in line with their own higher nature, they can take on the charismatic power of a natural healer, transforming themselves and society around them.
~ AstroGraph.com
Scorpios are the most misunderstood sign of the entire zodiac.
~ Mademoiselle, 1972
Scorpios are constantly searching for answers...
~ Edmund L. Van Deusen, 1976
...Scorpio. Beneath this cool exterior is a powder keg of passion.
~ Jim Davis
Even in repose, Scorpio's expression remains intense. When looking directly at a person, a Scorpio makes his subject feel penetrated.
~ Monte Farber & Amy Zerner
Being a Scorpio is an intense earthly experience.
~ Doreen Virtue & Yasmin Boland
My personal aesthetic is to be affected directly by everything about what you're seeing… I don't mind being dashed on the rocks… My most base act of defiance is to live a long time and still rock.
~ Jeff Buckley
I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.
~ Dennis Eckersley
if he cares, he will flay; if he loves, he will slay you
~ H.D.
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
~ H.L. Mencken
Burning lemurs of bloody Madagascar!
~ Hal Duncan