Quotes About Tension

Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.

I played trumpet in the school bands. I learned things I liked to play on my trumpet, but I didn't learn why this note goes with this note and why it produces that sound. Or how to create tension in the composition.

Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

Some people want to have controversy between the races.

As a person, I do not like tension in squabbles; I also do not like being on tenterhooks. When I am in love, it's the same. Especially with regards to love, I want very much to protect it.

And you pretend it doesn't bother you, When you just want to explode.

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.

Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.

I want you to be afraid to turn the page (and to do that) you need to show right from the beginning that you're playing for keeps.

With a horror movie, you want to know where the engine of the fear is coming from. Like in comedy, you want to know what the engine that's going to make the comedy - where that's coming from.

It's one thing to not want an evil-sorcerer type villain in your story, but it's another thing to avoid having any sort of antagonist at all. A story without an antagonist gets weird pretty quick.

"Good for him," Hale said. And then he stopped. There were four other people in the room, but Hale only looked at Kat, and something in his gaze burned her, froze her, made her want to run.

She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.

The Middle East is gorgeous, but again, politically, I would not want to go there.

I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way.

The thriller is the cardinal twentieth-century form. All it, like the twentieth century, wants to know is: Who's Guilty?

Magnus wants to shout at me, don't you, Magnus?" (Jace) "Yes," Magnus said, tearing his eyes away from Alec long enough to scowl. -pg.275-

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

The desire for perfect release and the real-world impossibility of perfect, whenever-you-want-it release had together produced a tension they could no longer stand.

Quiet down, we don't want to wake the Russians.

Leadership is a dynamic tension between where a politician thinks his country must go and where his voters want it to go.

With a horror movie, you dont want to anticipate where things are going to go.

Oh, gosh, Olive. I'm so embarrassed." "No need to be," Olive tells her. "We all want to kill someone at some point." (179)