Quotes About Tension

Someone's coming." Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf cart making its way up the steep and winding road to the

The next message was from Roy Lindell. He also followed the standard of brevity. "All right, asshole, I've got something for you. Call me.

y el cuello y derribándolo antes de que pudiese

Three's a crowd." For a high-tension situation, groups of three were inherently unstable. Unless everybody had clearly defined responsibilities, the group tended to form shifting allegiances, two against one.

a full week of their mother's quiet fury over the fun they don't seem to be having and their father's dogged attempts to provide it...

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

problem wasn't as simple as a bad cop. Maybe it was the emotional state in which the cop had found himself.

BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands when he drove an automobile.

Honey is tight as a coiled spring, all steel and no magnolia.

They mainly ran around the building insulting people

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.

He never used words or reason. He just moved dangerously among us.

I'm so nervous. I've always been nervous, ever since I was a kid.

Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.

I love horror because you can never just sit back in your seat. You always have to be on the edge of it.

I hate flying. I sit back and squirm.

I could sit down with Kim Jong-un, but I will not meet him for the sake of meeting him. I will meet Kim Jong-un when preconditions of resolving the nuclear issue are assured.

There are always going to be hospital dramas because if you're sitting in an emergency room for two hours, I guarantee you you are going to see something that makes you gasp. That's where drama comes from.

A pressure situation is not a happy feeling.

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

A good many dramatic situations begin with screaming.

What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. And then I figure how to get them out.

We want to create these dramatic situations, whether they are real or not, to entertain audiences.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.