Quotes About Tension

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket

Plot is people. Human emotions and desires founded on the realities of life, working at cross purposes, getting hotter and fiercer as they strike against each other until finally there's an explosion—that's Plot.

what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.

lately is has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca...

heart pounding

The difference between the two sides of the schism, is that one side puts out fires, and the other starts them.

I'm distraught, and I'm pregnant.

What chance did I stand between the Communists on one side and the Establishment on the other

People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.

Oil prices jumped to well over $100 a barrel, and analysts say it's due to tension in the Middle East. So, luckily, it's just a temporary thing.

It begins with Miller the Killer turning his head to see me eating Bolognese from the sick bag. Only he thinks I'm eating…

Davis leaned over his former mother-in-law, put

He went ballistic and started chasing me all over the house until I locked myself in the bathroom and Mom told him to calm down or she was going to call the police back herself.

Trouble is brewing in Wind River. The Irish and Chinese are up in arms, and the friendly Shoshone stand accused of stealing cattle. Marshal Cole Tyler sets out to track down the saboteurs-lighting a fuse that will set off a bloody massacre.

Kiel pulled his arm out of Owen's grasp and stepped forward. Where is she? he shouted, angrier than Owen had ever seen him

Know your death stakes! This is going to be crucial in order for you to write your novel from the middle.

Psychological death is the key to all romances, isn't it? If the two lovers don't get together, they will each miss out on their soul mate. Their lives will be incurably damaged. Since readers of traditional romances know they're going to end up together, it's all the more important to create this illusion of imminent psychological death.

The feeling was that just when things seemed all right, something bad was about to happen.

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

1812 -  U.S. declares war on Britain (War of 1812)   The

A gun is more important here than the Koran.

As Ginger went into the house, she chuckled. "Wouldn't be a family without some sort of drama.

No," Ivy cried out, struggling against Rowan. "Let go of me.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.