Quotes About Tension

YOU CANNOT PREVENT AND PREPARE FOR WAR AT THE SAME TIME —Albert Einstein

How do you say We come in peace when the very words are an act of war?

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

It was like my life hung on the chapters of a novel - and each scene ended in a cliffhanger.

Seconds passed. If there'd been an old clock in here, its ticks would have sounded slow and menacing.

The plotting he'd had to do to come to this point had exhausted Kidman's capacity for calculation; his natural, impulsive violence was regaining the upper hand.

There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.

He said his name was Kobi Chen-Tulsi. He said, "Tell Threnody Noon that the Prells are going to attack Grand Central." - The Crystal Horizon

Natural as such thinking may be, it is problematic. Lay out the tangled chain of reasoning in a straight line and you see this: "The probability that I would meet the love of my life was tiny. But it happened. So it was meant to be. Therefore the probability that it would happen was 100%." This is beyond dubious. It's incoherent. Logic and psycho-logic are in tension.

I kept talking until the coup and its various acts and scenes dissolved into a liquid mass that infiltrated my veins—until the air

body in the companionway. A quick

The woman wore a grey knee-length skirt, what once must have been a nicely pressed white blouse. She carried heels in one hand as she ran in the grass, toward Hoover Drive. A fast zombie in a dark business suit, complete with a thin black tie, was right behind her. He reached for her, swiping passes with bloated blue hands. She serpentined. Left. Right. Doubling back. Good moves. She was like an over-dressed running back. Her shoes the ball.

In the case of sociology however, we are always walking on hot coals, and the things we discuss are alive, they're not dead and buried

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

Peace is produced by war.

Je n'ai pas des angoisses, je suis dans une angoisse perpétuelle.

When people think of a Hitchcock movie, it isn't just the visual, it's the sound.

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

I've always said if I had to pinpoint what's more important in a scary movie, the soundscape or the visuals, I'd pick the sound.

The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.

I've been diagnosed with what's called vocal tension dysphonia. The muscles around my vocal chords kind of constrict my vocal chords from doing what they should do. It's kinda like being a body builder and you have muscles that are so large that they don't allow you to have flexibility, if that makes sense.

If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.

On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.

Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.