Quotes About Tension

Isabella was quite stirred; she wound her handkerchief into a tight ball, and by the faint light that streamed over her, dropped it deliberately on the floor. Their hands touched for an instant, but neither spoke. Silences were becoming more frequent and more delicious.

Yes, everything's just fine. It's all perfectly fine. Except for one thing: it's all screwed up.

And suddenly, from behind me, I hear the metaphysically abrupt arrival of the office boy. I feel like I could kill him for barging in on what I wasn't thinking. I turn around and look at him with a silence full of hatred, tense with latent homicide, my mind already hearing the voice he'll use to tell me something or other. He smiles from the other side of the room and says 'Good afternoon' in a loud voice. I hate him like the universe. My eyes are sore from imagining.

And suddenly the metaphysically abrupt noise of the arrival of the office boy. I could kill him for interrupting what I was not thinking. I look at him, turning around, in a silence full of hatred; I listen, expectantly, in a tension of latent homicide. He smiles from the back of the office and says hello out loud. I hate him as I hate the universe. My eyes are leaden with sleep.

He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his bare will. He kept himself upright on a very narrow line between madness and emptiness and when the time came for him to lose his balance he intended to lurch toward emptiness and fall on the side of his choice.

Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a great empty drum of flesh

The disappointment, brokenness, suffering, and pain that characterize life in this present world is held in dynamic tension with the promise of future glory that is yet to come. In that Advent tension, the church lives its life.

We don't want to show our hand to the fan base or give up too much too early.

'12 Angry Men' has a truly great collection of actors giving fantastic performances. It's an acting masterclass.

My favorite thing to write is people under pressure in high-stakes circumstances.

In a match between Barca and Madrid, there are no favourites. It does not matter how they have been faring.

For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.

People love drama. They feed off of it.

We were eyeball-to-eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.

It's hard when you corner, even when I corner other fighters because it's demanding.

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Who wants to live a life full of fights, blackmails and accusations?

Figuring out a way to balance the Boxer story with the Chinese Christians was difficult.

With film music, endings are often more difficult than beginnings, because a beginning is an underline, a way of exciting a moment, and then you have to find a way to dissipate that.

Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'

I try not to put pressure on filmmakers to come up with a big scare at the beginning. I think that helps let the audience settle in and get to know the people they're about to spend 90 minutes with. Once the scarier stuff happens, it's scarier because of that.

Every great filmmaker at some moment makes a war film.

To play at home, sometimes it goes against you in a Libertadores final.

I think it's always difficult to go against people with big match experience in finals.