Quotes About Tension

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

It's fun to play characters with a past, but it's also fun to play any role that is what I would call a 'pressure cooker' kind of character, where the lid is on, and it's left to simmer throughout the movie.

Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

For me in a horror film, just looking down a long corridor and seeing somebody standing there, the simplest thing in the world, has a really seismic impact to me.

Now it's 1967. Nasser and the Arabs are saying to themselves: The Jews have beaten us in Round One and Round Two, but we will wipe them out for good in Round Three.

The problem with real life is there's no musical score. In movies, you know you're in danger because there's an ominous chord underlining the scene

Vegas tends to affect me that way, some combination of tension and dread to which my body responds with all the symptoms of incipient flu.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

It takes so much energy to keep things at bay.

Her forbidden bath all those months ago still hung leaden between us, though Handful didn't seem the least bit ashamed by my discovery of it. Rather the opposite, she was like someone who'd risen to her full measure.

What has happened to our ability to dwell in unknowing, to live inside a question and coexist with the tensions of uncertainty?

That's how it turned out in the end, but in the first months after my return from California, we experienced doubt and tension. I woke every day to uncertainty about my marriage.

But before the friends settled on a wrought-iron bench with distance from others, they stopped to buy their kulfi. Alice took pistachio, and Perveen had plain cardamom. There was a brief squabble about paying the vendor, which Perveen won. The cold, sweet ice cream was a most comforting taste after all the tension of the day.

The terror here was palpable.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is noise before defeat.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull.  Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.

In difficult ground, press on; In encircled ground, devise stratagems; In death ground, fight.

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

7. Hence in the wise leader's plans, considerations of advantage and of disadvantage will be blended together.

T]o fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

When you start a fire, be to windward of it. Do not attack from the leeward.