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Quotes About Build-up

With Bayern, we want a lot of ball possession and to control the play, so I operate sometimes like the 11th outfield player. Thus I am included a lot into the build-up play and have a lot of touches of the ball.
~ Manuel Neuer
What transforms an anecdote into a story is escalation.
~ George Saunders
We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
~ Samuel Goldwyn
For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.
~ James Wan
A blow lasts a minute but is anticipated for months—our passions are like volcanoes: always rumbling but only intermittently erupting.
~ Gustave Flaubert
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
~ Julie Burchill
One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me - that of going up to town and 'doing a show.'
~ Julie Burchill
One thing that I've always tried to do is create lifts - the moment that you have a rush of feelings. That's always something that I'm trying to communicate in music, and particularly the style of music that I write for Japanese Breakfast: I'm always trying to build things up into each other.
~ Michelle Zauner
There's so much of a desire in the entertainment industry for newness, a desire to build somebody up and then treat them as old news within six months. I think you'd be naive if you didn't try to hold on to your own way of doing things.
~ Felicity Jones
There was no reason to feel pressure, but I felt it anyway -- the pressure of hot air and passing time, an idle tension that builds up in places where men sweat twenty-four hours a day.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
The key to a good horror movie is what happens between the scares. The scares aren't the tricky part. If you're involved in what's going on in between, the scare is going to trick you. If you're not, the best scare in the world will not be scary.
~ Jason Blum
My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.
~ Alvin Lee
I believe that detente was having almost the opposite effect of what was intended. What was intended was to sort of end the contest for power and to stop Soviet expansion, especially by military means and the military build-up, the military contest.
~ Jeane Kirkpatrick
Before you drop an album, you need some momentum.
~ Jadakiss
We're not going to do monthly pay-per-view just to do pay-per-views. We're going to build up to big fights more like the boxing model, and when the time is right, we'll do the big, big fights.
~ Scott Coker
There is an art to the building up of suspense.
~ Tom Stoppard
Her face was like a pot of tea about to whistle.
~ Carolyn Turgeon
A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.
~ Shawn Wayans
Such are some of the non-praiseworthy incentives of those who would fertilize the future. And they are all pressures of one kind or another. These pressures build up in people throughout their lifetimes and cry to be released, just as our bowels cry to be released to avoid the discomfort of a fecal build-up. And who, if they could help it, wants the discomfort of a fecal build-up? So we make bowel movements to relieve this pressure.
~ Thomas Ligotti
You build up the opponent, and you lose confidence.
~ Niko Kovac
When I analyse an opponent I do not look at the results. I try to find out how they score goals, concede, build up play, counter attack, counter-press, other things. So the result doesn't count for much.
~ Julian Nagelsmann
If we do the build-up so well, it's because our players always offer me different options to pass the ball, so that makes it easier. With calm and with quality on the pass, it always works out. Of course, you need to have the courage and be very cool to play that way, because any mistake can end up in a goal conceded.
~ Ederson
The longer an event is anticipated-a milestone birthday, an eclipse, a new millennium-the more likely it is to be an anti-climax.
~ Keith Waterhouse
But the rubber bubble was about to burst.
~ Unknown