#tense

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. ↗

— Richard Powers

#binary #book #character #either #emotions

People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#even #future #job #like #money

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#does #in the past #love #loved #past

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen. ↗

— Ellen Key

#century #emancipation #greatest #history #intense

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#aware #being #death #did #die

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#emotion #emotions #even #feel #hear

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. ↗

— Amanda Seyfried

#emotion #emotions #feel #intense #most

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. ↗

— Wallis Simpson

#around #challenge #compelling #each #emotionally

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive. ↗

— Elvis Stojko

#always #because #being #brian #competitive

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#because #furniture #growing #growing up #had