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Quotes About Intensity

If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class.
~ Gina Barreca
Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.
~ Unknown
This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
It's funny how three or four notes of anger can be struck at once, creating the perfect chord of fury.
~ Unknown
Anger and embarrassment are often neighbors.
~ Amy Poehler
Let your dissent fuel you, your anger inspire you, your rage convey you, and your fury strike a chilling fear onto the spines of your enemies.
~ Evan Meekins, The Black Banner
Harry, " she said quietly, "I know you must be angry."I burn things to ash and smash holes in buildings when I'm angry, " I said. "I'm a couple of steps past that point right now.
~ Jim Butcher, Changes
Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.
~ Unknown
Just sayin' you got a hot nature, little girl. Quick to anger, quick to lust. Some people are just like that - hot-blooded.
~ Unknown
Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.
~ Jane Hirshfield
I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.
~ Chris Rock
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I can get obsessed by anything if i look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
~ Irving Penn
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
~ Red Smith
Blood is just red sweat.
~ Enson Inoue
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
~ Taisen Deshimaru
Do whatever you do intensely.
~ Robert Henri
Art is a jealous mistress.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no such thing as exaggerated art. I even believe that there is salvation only in extreme.
~ Paul Gauguin
I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it's going to do it visually or physically, I'll take either way.
~ Robert Longo
Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.
~ Ani DiFranco
I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.
~ Unknown
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
~ Steve Martin
Some poems are art because of their passion.
~ Gerald Stern