#intense

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. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#both #choice #city #cold #first

At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book. ↗

— John Pople

#ahead #algebra #book #class #developed

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. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest. ↗

— Laura Riding

#closest #feel #full #further #i

I just love doing broader work - I always get asked to do fairly heavy-duty, intense dramas and interesting, psychologically intense characters. But you know, it's nice to make people laugh sometimes. ↗

— Julian Sands

#asked #broader #characters #doing #dramas

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life. ↗

— Leah Ward Sears

#changes #court #followed #growing #growing up

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music. ↗

— Stendhal

#argument #cautious #governed #habit #intense

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends. ↗

— Josh Groban

#anyone #aware #few #friends #got

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#deal #excess #game #great #great deal

During the 1990s, San Francisco lived through one of the most intense economic booms of its history. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#economic #francisco #history #intense #lived