Intense Records Quotes & Sayings

It is significant that many of these experiences are reported to us from periods of war and distress: that the stronger the forces of destruction appeared, the more intense grew the spiritual vision which opposed them. We learn from these records that the mystical consciousness has the power of lifting those who possess it to a plane of reality which no struggle, no cruelty, can disturb: of conferring a certitude which no catastrophe can wreck. Yet it does not wrap its initiates in a selfish and otherworldly calm, isolate them from the pain and effort of the common life. Rather, it gives them renewed vitality; administering to the human spirit not--as some suppose--a soothing draught, but the most powerful of stimulants. — Evelyn Underhill

And oft I heard the tender dove In firry woodlands making moan. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire. — Alexandre Dumas

And then he got all religious on her. Very quickly.
- The Piper's Son — Melina Marchetta

I know how it feels to go into a studio to start a record, and eight weeks later it's finished. I know how an intense schedule feels. — Amy Grant

Being a musician, being a person who's playing tours and making records is a part-time thing for me at age. I did it, I lived it and I breathed it every day of my life for 30-odd years and now I am slowing down a little bit. But it does not mean that I am any less intense and dedicated to the work that I am doing now. I have other priorities in life as well. — David Gilmour

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense. — Nick Mason

Why is the competition always so intense to set new records for maximum stupidity? — Ashleigh Brilliant

The free mind, unafraid of labor, presses on to attain the good. — Laura Cereta

Let men express the intense admiration, which I share with all other Americans, of the record made by the Marines. — Theodore Roosevelt

Outside the world was ending and snow continued to fall. — Emily St. John Mandel

When something happens, it triggers something inside us that connects us to a situation, connects us to other people, lighting us up and linking us like little lights on a Christmas tree, twisted and turned but still connected on a wire. Some go out, others flicker, others burn strong and bright, yet we're all on the same line. — Cecelia Ahern

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way. — Allan Sloan

In a manner of speaking. I certainly never want to lose my voice as an educator. — Tim Gunn

We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: "If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician". In practice he is apt to say: "try this; if it works that will justify it". — John Edensor Littlewood

Fortunately I own a vintage brain, and I am alive and well in the 21st century, still making records, still working at an intense pace and most of all, still having fun doing it. — Tony Visconti