Quotes About Tension

In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.

Cezanne produced precarious little worlds that almost, almost, almost lose their balance but somehow hold themselves together, creating tension, beauty and danger all at once.

I can open up any can of worms and get people upset.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

I think a great negotiator is an aggressive negotiator, and we're aggressive negotiators, We're not worried about someone coming at us.

I was so stressed, man. When I was 17, I was so worried about what the hell was going to happen.

I'm worried for a war to break out between Saudi Arabia and Iran, even though I rule it out.

I remember unbelievable tension in our home. There were lots of meetings, lots of worries. I remember my father told me I had to be careful of what I said on the phone because it was tapped. And I remember how his friends adored and revered him.

I think one thing that does cause unhappiness is protracted anxiety and worry.

I'm always on the worrying side.

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

That's the reason some schools of thinking don't rule out a destruction of the Chinese military potential before the situation grows worse than it is today. It's bad enough now.

If there is anything worse than international warfare, is civil warfare, and the United States was destined to experience it in the extreme of bitterness.

For better or worse, I've been involved in the description of political conflict.

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

The worst I encountered was Peter Manley talking behind me as I threw during our world championship quarter-final back in 2006.

I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think it's the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really can't be this way.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

I will negotiate with my worst enemy.

If you can have a great story that people can follow the mystery and get the suspense, and then you have those moments of tension and a splash of visual fun, then you kind of get everything. You get your money's worth.

Justin Lin, the writer and director of the teenage-wasteland drama 'Better Luck Tomorrow,' a shrewdly tense piece of storytelling, recognizes that sometimes it's good for a filmmaker to stir up trouble.

There was a ton of fighting between my mother and father. The kids would be thrown into the middle, to choose sides.