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Quotes About Tension

Quite unconsciously he backed away a little towards the door. Inspector Neele noted the movement.
~ Agatha Christie
His hands were shaking and his face was twitching. He looked a wreck of a man.
~ Agatha Christie
We are not pleasant people here, for the story of war is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you.
~ Agnes Newton Keith
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in the region.
~ Ahmet Davutoglu
Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines
~ Airplane
Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
~ Airplane
Sometimes all you had to do was breathe to ruin somebody's else's day.
~ Al Sarrantonio
In order to fight a war (probably the most extreme form of poor communication), unfamiliarity is the preferred state of mind.
~ Alan Alda
When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
~ Alan Alda
pajamas. He stumbled a little, the two men jerked him upright and his glasses went askew. They stopped at the back of the Stolypin car, and one of the men let him go in order to open the door. Instinctively, he adjusted his glasses. Turned his head. For a bare instant, he stared at Khristo. His face appeared to have somehow shrunk, and his eyes looked enormous. Then the two
~ Alan Furst
What was Trotsky's quote? "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
~ Alan Furst
match for what looked like MAC-10s the bank robbers were toting, but what can you do? Sometimes you're just
~ Alan Jacobson
answered in a low, breathless voice.
~ Alan Jacobson
His first thought was that an electrical storm was approaching. There were
~ Alan Russell
The two men -- Fray and Malkin -- were standing near each other. They were not unarmed. They were quite seriously not unarmed. Both men were carrying -- or at least aiming -- what could only be categorised as small artillery pieces: two bulky gas-powered spinguns, so heavy that they had to be strapped to their bodies via thick leather girdles. Malkin was aiming at the angels, more or less.
~ Alastair Reynolds
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
~ Jeri Ryan
I don't get into these petty things, Kentucky-Louisville. To me, it's nonsense... There will be people at Kentucky that will have a nervous breakdown if they lose to us... They've got to put the fences up on bridges. There will be people consumed by Louisville.
~ Rick Pitino
In the Bigg Boss' house, you don't have phones, you don't have places to run away. The only options are fight or flight.
~ Rubina Dilaik
When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
~ Sammy Hagar
The '7500' is with Leslie Bibb. It's a big ensemble with a lot of really good people. I play the pilot of the 747 that something happens on as it crosses the Pacific. It's going to do what 'Jaws' did to the ocean. Not make people want to get on!
~ Johnathon Schaech
I like the idea of sort of being able to stick a pin in something and deflate it with humor and just get a laugh, otherwise we'll cry.
~ Randy Rainbow
Personally, I feel that if you shoot off 200,000 rounds, and your lead character pulls out a pistol and never gets hit, there's a sense of jeopardy that's lost. It becomes a little less exciting when things don't make sense.
~ Judge Reinhold
Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
~ Oren Peli
I will always fight for peace. But, unfortunately, it is war that drives us forward. It is war that makes the major turns. It makes Wall Street function; it makes all the bastards in the Balkans function.
~ Emir Kusturica