Quotes About Tension

You used to be able to identify Sox fans in Yankee Stadium. They sat, slump-shouldered, with the same panicked expectation nervous motorists have looking in the rearview mirror at the 16-wheeler behind them on Interstate 95 near New Haven.

Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.

Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It's going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.

Oh yeah, I mean, it wasn't a very good guitar, most good guitars have got thrust rods in the necks that you can adjust or that'll keep them in shape, you know keep them straight. This one just, well it turned into a bow and arrow after a couple of months.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.

I was on 'The Shield' for a year before 'Crash' came out, and it was like doing an independent film every week.

In my peaceful moments, I yearn to write a bank heist like the one in 'Heat.'

I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.

The years after the millennium will see gathering conflict all over the world to the point where the United Nations will be overwhelmed.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I often find in doing tragedy, or doing very serious material, that there's a level of anxiety that builds that often leads to laughter in some cases. In between takes, there can often be a lightness.

'Fargo' is a tragedy with a happy ending. So you need to have that tragic underpinning, that all of this could be avoidable, and that's what makes it tragic. It's about the use of violence, and the fact that the tension in anticipation of violence and the tension in anticipation of a laugh are sort of the same.

I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

I've trained myself to find time to exercise relaxation of the body. I have these programs - I just listen to the instructions, and they're simple. Sometimes you just hold your hand tight and keep your breath - you hold it, hold it, feel all the tension, and then relax.

In life, we like tranquility; in books, we love tension.

Syria is still the foundation of the axis of evil, and I'm not sure it's appropriate to transfer Israel's northern front to the axis of evil.

I turns arounds slowly, knowing if I turn too quick they gon' gun me down.

Two things greater than all the things are.On is love and the other is war.

So many writers fight an uphill battle trying to interest their readers in matters that have no inherent conflict.

The secret of creating conflict in scenes you write is to give your characters different scripts.