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Quotes About Intensity

Let not a god interfere unless where a god's assistance is necessary. [Adopt extreme measures only in extreme cases.]
~ Horace
Oh my God, she was retarded and I was going to kill Jim.
~ Ilona Andrews
That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.
~ J. D. Salinger
Honest to God, she was the noisiest woman he'd ever been shot at with.
~ Jill Shalvis
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
God is a consuming fire.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die.
~ Steve Prefontaine
No, it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear. Too much power is never enough.
~ Mark Donohue
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a good actor.
~ Sarah Bernhardt
My hatred is a thousand times more powerful than all your good intentions.
~ Jim Goad
For a player to be good enough to play for Liverpool, he must be prepared to run through a brick wall for me then come out fighting on the other side.
~ Bill Shankly
I tend to lose myself in the moment. I'm not very good at holding back. I don't know how to do this without feeling everything. My emotions are the tool I use to perform.
~ Florence Welch
Good directors can bring certain things out of you, with their intensity or gentleness or sensitivity or understanding. They can make an actor feel he can do no wrong.
~ Robert De Niro
I'm a good friend, but I'm a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.
~ Mike Tyson
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
~ William Matthews
I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
~ Kirstie Alley
It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.
~ Miguel Cabrera
Passion is what you need to be good, an unforgiving passion.
~ David Easton
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
~ Jay Baruchel
Anger is a good motivator.
~ James Dyson
The actual fights themselves are very demanding. You don't want to drain yourself. But it pumps you up, gets you in the zone. It's a good way of getting you into the zone for the scene.
~ Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
The secret to being a rider in the hippodrome wasn't that you must be agile, or that you must be good with horses...It was that you must hide inside your costume a little of a killer's heart.
~ Alexander Chee
Shooting gives me a good feeling. It is faster than baseball and you are out on one strike.
~ Ernest Hemingway
To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.
~ James Frey