Intensely Quotes

In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects.

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care.

Television is intensely personal.

Protein has been intensely over-represented on the plate. Now, the garden should be the main drag for main courses.

I love the line of Flaubert about observing things very intensely. I think our duty as writers begins not with our own feelings, but with the powers of observing.

Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.

Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others.

Robert Pattinson has the face of a film-noir dupe. It's a face that is searching and open and kind. It's a face that a certain type of woman might want to fool because, in its intensely old-fashioned kindness, the face says, I love you. Fool me.

My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.

There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

I wrote lyrics that were intensely personal to me a few years ago. Maybe people know me better now.

I've always put myself intensely into my work.

There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well.

The weather became so intensely cold that we sent for all the hunters who had remained out with captain Clarke's party, and they returned in the evening several of them frostbitten.

My work is intensely personal.