Quotes About Intensity

What do you think this is, a Matthew Reilly novel?" "Whether

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. 

The louder the babies screamed, the brighter the lights.

His nostrils flared, he was breathing like a picadored bull.

I'm pounding and kicking him and I'm all me and I'm kicking and kicking into the face that's crying and begging for mercy, kicking, kicking...only for real, for cold ice real, it's not my foot smashing his face to a pulp, but my stick smashing the puck into the board, and it's not him crying, but me.

Miranda, there is nothing I would rather do that fuck you. She flinched at his bluntness and Ethan's frown darkened. Don't recoil from that word. It is exactly what I want. I don't want to make love to you like a gentleman. I want to pound into you. I want to tie you down and make you beg. I want to lick every inch of your body until you're so wet with need that I almost slide out of you on every damned stroke.

Put the fire out? Hell no. What we need to do is stoke it.

You'll skydive, and hang into ravines by thin ropes, and go rafting in the rapids, but you won't... what? Get crazy and reckless with an amazing girl? You won't fall madly out-of-your-brains in love? Let your world as you know it be blown into bits because you fall heart-crushingly head-over-heels for someone?

I want to have sex. To be more accurate, I want to get fucked until I can't see straight.

Let your world as you know it be blown to bits because you fall heart-crushingly head-over-heels for someone.

Everything is violently perfect! Why would you ask? Violently perfect? That's an odd word choice...

I've always put myself intensely into my work.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

You know, there are those writers who work at writing every day. I'm not one of those guys. I tend to work at varying levels of intensity, based on the amount of time and energy I have available.

Certainly when you're dealing with more deep emotional work and sensory work, for me it helps me to just stay in it.

When I'm working, I don't wake up and say, 'OK, time to go be intense.' I just look at whatever scenes we're working on that day and break them down - just real intense everyday work.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

When you work on a soap opera, that's three years of you working every day. There was no time to do anything other than the soap opera - you're locked in.

In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.

Each work has to be done as intensely as possible.

The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

Anytime you do a job, especially one that's as intense and long as this one was, you have phantom work syndrome. I'm constantly feeling like I'm miked, so I'm careful of what I say all the time.

Work would be terribly boring if one did not play the game all out, passionately.

I can't think of very many people who work as hard at the craft of songcraft as Gord Downie does. It was life or death. Every syllable was important.