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Quotes About Intensity

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.
~ Dave Eggers
Morning comes like a scream through a pinhole.
~ Dave Eggers
Bright people have the capability of freaking out faster and more dramatically than anyone else.
~ David Allen
What's the first level of focus when the stuff hits the fan? Action! Work harder! Overtime! More people! Get busier! And a lot of stressed-out people are thrown at the situation.
~ David Allen
mouth to start screaming. Not a bad way to go, actually. Seagraves calmly laid down the rifle and peeled off his jumpsuit
~ David Baldacci
He said quietly, "My life is over, Katie. But whoever did this to Anna is going to die. And soon.
~ David Baldacci
Rogers raised a fist to deliver a blow to the head that would have almost certainly killed the man. The spot on his head was burning like somebody had set it on fire with an acetylene torch.
~ David Baldacci
smaller ones using sledgehammers
~ David Baldacci
over, Brennan stared at them, his face
~ David Baldacci
There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white.
~ David Batchelor
There is a kind of white that is more than white, and this was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that repels everything that is inferior to it, and that is almost everything. This was that kind of white. There is a kind of white that is not created by bleach but that itself is bleach. This was that kind of white. This white was aggressively white. It did its work on everything around it, and nothing escaped.
~ David Batchelor
Explanation: When you experience an unpleasant emotion, note the situation that seemed to stimulate it. Then, note the automatic thought associated with the emotion. In rating degree of emotion, I = a trace; 100 = the most intense possible.
~ David D. Burns
To be a soldier in combat was to fall in love constantly
~ Unknown
And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.
~ David Foster Wallace
He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.
~ David Foster Wallace
I cannot say what color Lenore Beadsman's eyes are; I cannot look at them; they are the sun to me.
~ David Foster Wallace
Like many Americans of his generation in this awkwardest of post-Imperial decades, an age suspended between exhaustion and replenishment, between input too ordinary to process and input too intense to bear, Sternberg is deeply ambivalent about being embodied; an informing fear that, were he really just an organism, he'd be nothing more than an ism of his organs.
~ David Foster Wallace
This by the way is known as Werther's Axiom, whereby quote The Intensity of a desire D is inversely proportional to the ease of D's gratification. Known also as Romance.
~ David Foster Wallace
Good literature makes your head throb heartlike
~ David Foster Wallace
He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9 mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.
~ David Foster Wallace
Everyone should get at least one good look at the eyes of a man who finds himself rising toward what he wants to pull down to himself.
~ David Foster Wallace
The next year had seen them drop into the crazy-obsessive love spiral in which they'd break up and then not be able to stay away from each other, until one time she was able to stay away, and that was all she wrote.
~ David Foster Wallace
Una vez que me han visto, no pueden pensar en otra cosa ni quieren ver a nadie más y dejan de atender a sus responsabilidades cotidianas y creen que si me pueden tener a su lado todo el tiempo todo estará bien. Todo. Soy la solución a su profunda y esclavizadora necesidad de bailar mejilla con mejilla con la perfección.
~ David Foster Wallace
His white knit shirt and name-brand shorts were soaked through so you could see the straps of his jock biting into the soft ass I was handing him. He
~ David Foster Wallace