Quotes About Tension

Ich blickte den Revolver an, und der Revolver blickte mich an.

Leave the gun out of it. I can always hear the sound of money.

When the plot flags, bring in a man with a gun.

A dark woman with a sharp nose opened her mouth to yell and no sound came from her. There was the instant when nobody makes a sound, when it almost seems as if there will never again be any sound—after the sound of a gun. (Guns at Cyrano's)

The big man leaned down from his hips and bent his knees a little and breathed in my face. 'What for did you call me Hemingway, pally?' 'There are ladies present.

You're a full portion of what I don't like,' she said. 'Get out of my way.' I didn't move. She didn't move. We were both sitting down – and not even close to each other.

Marlowe," he said, even more earnestly, "I'll try hard, but I don't think I am going to like you." "I'm screaming," I said. "With rage and pain.

Oh hell and fireflies," I said and went out to the kitchen and gobbled a quick drink, before we started. It didn't do me any good. It just made me want to climb up the wall and gnaw my way across the ceiling.

We had quite a fight.' 'You mean you had – and mostly with yourself.

The air-conditioned room was full of cold, but Lipshultz was sweating.

Guns never settle anything," I said. "They are just a fast curtain to a bad second act.

He stared at me and his left hand began to edge towards the gun. He belonged to the Wandering Hand Society. The girls would have had a time with him.

The room was suddenly full of heavy silence, like a fallen cake. I went on out, parting the silence as if I was pushing my way through water.

On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.

draw, a prize specimen of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object, a battle without armor, a war without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising

Yes," said Talon, his voice the hiss of a coiled serpent.

dirk, stunning the man. Borric shoved the third bruiser hard into a fat merchant

Josie walked slowly toward the jury. She stood close as if she was

The boiling point of water is straightfoward, but the boiling point of societies is mysterious.

creciente ira y el descontento entre los judíos.

there is no mistaking the tension that exists in the gospels between how the early church viewed Jesus and how Jesus seems to view himself.

But sometimes waiting can be murder…

Think yourself lucky," said Bigwig, bleeding and cursing, "that I don't kill you.

Racing through the ocher light, Bigwig was impelled by a frenzy of tension and energy. He did not feel the wound in his shoulder. The storm was his own. The storm would defeat Efrafa.