Quotes About Tension

Novels are usually built on conflict, sometimes very, very difficult conflict. It's why men write war novels - because there you go, there's the conflict writ large.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

Usually, when it's a story about three women all being involved with the same man, it ends in some eyeballs being scratched out and some weaves being snatched off.

Nothing beats a really rough massage. I really hate a man who goes all limp when he's doing a massage. Who needs a soft massage? Just get in there and rub me hard or don't bother.

In a perfect union the man and woman are like a strung bow. Who is to say whether the string bends the bow, or the bow tightens the string?

One would think that man would run out of wars.

We like to keep the sexual tension underplayed, especially between the Smoking Man and me. Once we thought he was my father . . . it got more interesting.

Chisora's not a nice man, not a nice human being.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting

She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.

Irritation for some men was their response to strain.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites.

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

An armed man need not fight.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

Grim sighed heavily. "I swear I'm getting a migraine." "My mom suffers from those a lot, too." "Being around you, I imagine she does.

Where there is money, there is fighting.

I don't like money actually but it quiets my nerves.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle

Do not sit next to my mother when she is watching one of her children compete because you will have fingernails down your back. She is a nervous wreck.