Tension Quotes - page 3

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing. (Byron Nelson)
I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things. View quote
Cecile de France
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. View quote
David Lindsay-Abaire
Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it. View quote
David Sanborn
Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension. View quote
Herschel Walker
I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses. View quote
Jimmy Connors
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. View quote
Joshua L. Liebman
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension. View quote
Leonard Orr
Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension. View quote
Lorrie Moore
So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do. View quote
Latrell Sprewell
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. (Marilyn Hacker)
When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence. View quote
Marilyn Hacker
The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested. View quote
Michael M. Honda
Our feeling is that the most important thing on a set is that actors have enough confidence to try different things. If there's stress or tension, they won't go out on a limb because they won't want to embarrass themselves if they don't feel completely comfortable. View quote
Peter Farrelly
In the end, it's acting, it's not real. But every director will tell you that you have to create conditions that create tension, because tension is what makes drama feel real. View quote
Paul Greengrass
When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't. View quote
Richard Jenkins
Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show. View quote
Rob Corddry
With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. View quote
Robert Morgan
The most interesting character to me is someone who is stuck in the no man's land between Belief and Unbelief, Faith and Faithlessness. I'm capitalizing like a German, but it doesn't matter whether it's faith in a person or in God, or belief in science or whatever, it's the desperate in-between state that makes for interesting dramatic tension. View quote
Richard Dooling
I work on stretched linen canvas, sized so that the surface already has a sense of tension when I begin. It is a very rich and reactive surface. I begin by drawing on the canvas with a kind of loose line, very simply and freely. I paint very thinly, which allows me to change the drawing if I want to. View quote
Sean Scully
Coming from bad results, you have more tension and you get more into the game, maybe. You never know which is best. I prefer to come from good results. You have more confidence and you believe you are doing things well. But in football everything can change very quickly. (Tito Vilanova)
Tension is the great integrity. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
It is the nature of the writer to question the validity of his world and yet rely on his senses to describe it. From what other tension can great literature be born? View quote
Jeff VanderMeer
My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension. View quote
Carrie Fisher
America has a deeply confused image of itself that is in perpetual tension. We are a nation that takes pride in our ethnic diversity, recognizing its importance in shaping our society and in adding richness to its existence. Yet, we simultaneously insist that we can and must function and live in a race and color-blind way that ignore these very differences that in other contexts we laud. That tension between "the melting pot and the salad bowl" – a recently popular metaphor used to described New York's diversity – is being hotly debated today in national discussions about affirmative action. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor