#tens

The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#change #consists #individuality #inner #intensification

The makeup is simply an extension of the personality and colors, clothing, makeup all express something. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#colors #express #extension #makeup #personality

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema. ↗

— Siouxsie Sioux

#being #cinema #creating #drawn #i

High school is very intense for everyone. But at a boarding school, because you're there 24 hours a day, everything gets magnified. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#boarding #boarding school #day #everyone #everything

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them. ↗

— Kate Smith

#enhances #intensifies #meaning #mood #music

Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#circulation #dangerous #deal #errors #ever

I fell in love with Neil's pain. We were in this cocoon of intensity. Neil and I were uniquely in the same position at the same time, having overwhelming success facing us. ↗

— Carrie Snodgress

#facing #fell #having #i #intensity

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization. ↗

— Tony Snow

#annihilate #anymore #blindness #civilization #death

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. ↗

— Socrates

#everywhere #extension #fear #presumably #reverence

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

— Susan Sontag

#existence #flux #future #intensely #mobile