Quotes About Tension

Corpul îi trosnea ca un bec supratensionat. Ai fi zis c? e o fantom? ro?ie-argintie incandescent? care murea pentru a doua oar?. Mi-era team? s-o ating, s? nu se sparg?, s? nu m? ard. Mi-era team?. Vedeam incendii stroboscopice crescând sub pleoapele ei, r?spândindu-se în fl?c?ri albastre.

Yuki (in a standoff with Zero): We're going to stay like this until vol. 10? Why...don't we sit down...Zero? Zero: I can't. If I sit down, I won't be able to get up again. (I've reached my limits in many ways). Yuki: Well, I'm going to sit...

It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.

Like I was falling even while I was standing still. Aching limbs.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

I stand like a vertical headache

What kind of pressure was she talking about? Atmospheric? Gravitational? "Yes," I said. "A lot. Everywhere, there is some kind of pressure.

Marcelo took a sharp intake of breath, as if the next question was something he had to swim under.

Nora had also felt that simply to be in his presence was to commit some kind of invisible crime.

Accept. Don't fight things, feel them. Tension is about opposition, relaxation is about letting go.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

Add Pauses Every good storyteller knows that a pause can do so many things. It can heighten the tension of the scene, or simply allow the audience to absorb the information given to them, or give the listener an opportunity to laugh or respond back with a "Really?", "Oh my gosh", or "No way!

Where would you be curious or feel suspense about what's going to happen next? Add pauses in those places to hike up the intensity.

In fact, the tension between the sheer quantity of horrifying news and your real-world impotence to do much about it is part of our consumer strategy. We create the illusion that being informed is a kind of action in itself. So to wash that guilt out—to eliminate the shame and discomfort you feel over doing nothing as the world goes mad—you'll keep tuning in.

There are times when American politics seems like little more than two groups in a fever to prevent each other from trespassing upon their respective soothing versions of unreality

Steve Durkee had left not on friendly terms, which is not unusual in the Paisley world.

I'm going to talk to them. See if they'll stand aside." "They won't." "Then it will be a short conversation." Jack

But somebody sure as hell's trying to start a war in this country. Liberal against conservative, city against country, pro-gun against gun control, pro-government against pro-freedom, black against white against brown, Christian against Muslim… There's no other explanation that makes sense.

Claire Wolfe: "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

The devil steps up to the podium, clears his throat and taps out time with his baton: in come the monstrous iron kettle drums of artillery, joined by a woodwind section of whistling bullets and shrieking shells, the ever-crackling light percussion of rifle fire.

To fish in troubled waters.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.

Then we lapse into silence. It's these silences that do damage, that reveal glimpses of the distressed foundation struggling under the weight of things.

I think the Cold War works as a great analogy or simile for different kinds of conflict. It's funny, when you look back at it, it's one of the last times that the boundaries were clear. Now, as we see on 'Homeland ' there are no clear boundaries and enemies.