As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White LightWhite Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
You do not have to pursue something intensely; you as a being should become very intense.
The silence was an intense roar.
Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair.
I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
I have a writer’s concentration: intense, but flickering.
Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own interests.
In order for the Prevail Scenario to work. . . you will have to have a world in which you have both differences between people and opportunities for intense connectedness.
Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.
The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.
. . . and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.
I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.
The story of The Doors is one of the most compelling in the history of American rock music; three hugely talented musicians and a lead singer whose commitment to artistic freedom was so intense he rocketed them to a success that always hovered on the edge of chaos. As an independent filmmaker this sensibility affected me greatly.
I like to smile, even in intense situations. My opponents don't know how to react when they see me smile.
I just love to draw. It's very intense for me. The day will just go by like the snap of a finger. A lot of times I'll draw or paint late into the night. When I am really concentrating, I kind of lose track of what I am doing.
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?
I'm probably a good boyfriend, but I'm pretty intense. When you're with me it's exciting, fun and very intense. At the same time, I'm easy going. But all that depends on what girl I'm with.
In the two or three or four months that it takes me to write a play, I find that the reality of the play is a great deal more alive for me than what passes for reality. I'm infinitely more involved in the reality of the characters and their situation than I am in everyday life. The involvement is terribly intense.
It was the most intense training schedule I had ever experienced in my life. Ten to twelve hours of training every single day. You cherish every moment of sleep you get. But it really helped us build that base going into the Olympic year.
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.