Quotes About Intensity

People hear whispers as loud as guns.

KISS ME, HARDY! Kiss me, QUICK!

Taking a hypersensitive approach to life had come to seem so much more pure and honest then joining the ranks of the numb masses who could let it all slide by. What I stopped realizing was that if you feel everything intensely, ultimately you feel nothing at all. Everything registers at the same decibel...

I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

Good and bad are not opposites, they are both just different forms of intensity.

And you know how it is with things that mean a lot to you. They get heavy. They drive you crazy. They make life worth living, they make life unliveable, you can't stay, you can't go, there's not enough tequila in all of Mexico to straighten out your mind, years go by and nothing ever changes. This face is one that will make you weak forever.

All the while he's been moving towards her, both stoat to rabbit and moth to flame. And she's staring at him, flame-bright and rabbit-scared, too brave to look away.

Drama is like life with the dull bits cut out.

What is drama, after all, but life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.

Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.

They are often of hurricane intensity and with gust velocities sometimes attaining to 150 to 200 miles per hour.

close to 80 knots out of the southwest

Of course, he smothered it in words—odd words, too—melodramatic, poetic, out-of-the-way words that lie just on the edge of frenzy.

Ordinary sounds remain ordinary only so long as one is not listening to them; under the influence of intense listening they become unusual, portentous, and therefore extraordinary.

Oh, oh! This fiery height! Oh, oh! My feet of fire! My burning feet of fire!

Everybody turns to look at him. It is quite frightening.

The eyes were too intense, tortured almost. He was tall, but the body was wiry rather than powerful. Nature had gifted him with a cats grace and lethal swiftness, rather than the raw power of a bull.

It's a bit like school camp, shooting a film. Everyone's on heat. It's a strange energy. It's full of adrenalin. I funnel my excess energy in funny little ways. I do a lot of dancing in my trailer. I love music.

Gee whiz, it's all fucking heart- breaking

I'm the one who has no small feelings