The air between us is thick with tension, a powder keg of…

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -…

— Alan Alda

In this other dimension I feel tension surrounding my every move. You and I are together at last. We are captive in our own…

— London Elektricity

During the periods when South Korea played a more active role, the inter-Korean relationship was more peaceful, and there was less tension between the…

— Moon Jae-in

I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps in belief which make…

— Brian Evenson

Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not to jump…

— Daniel Myrick

It's got to do with the contention between content and form. Invariably that's what's responsible for its energies, its tensions, its being interesting or…

— Garry Winogrand

As a social and as a personal force, religion has become a dependent variable. It does not originate; it reacts. It does not denounce;…

— C. Wright Mills

I was a 23-year-old law student when I won the 'Great British Bake Off' in 2012. For 10 weeks I had balanced my degree…

— John Whaite

He’d moved toward me again. His hands released mine and moved to my waist, and I noticed I wasn’t the only one breathing heavily.…

— Richelle Mead

Immediately upon entering the weighing-in zone, I sensed an oppressive tension in the air, the lightweights staring and glaring at each other, snarling like…

— Brad Alan Lewis

The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety, nervousness, tension,…

— Eckhart Tolle

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the…

— Andrea Mitchell

I try to make the set as relaxed and fun and stress-free as humanly possible, while still having control over things. It's usually tension…

— Terry Zwigoff

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry

— Eckhart Tolle