Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Past is story, present is moment to act & future is ray of hope.Therefore dont lament for past to make present a… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all… — Hans Magnus Enzensberger Copy Share Image
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we… — John Green Copy Share Image
A good affirmation has five basic ingredients: it's personal, it's positive, it's present tense, it's visual, and it's emotional. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the… — Deborah Levy Copy Share Image
When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I have a problem with writer/directors, personal. I can't work well with both of them on the set, if both of them… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
As a driver I have come to believe that the person just in front of me and the person just behind me… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time,… — Casey Affleck Copy Share Image
“So what did you do when death came to your house? We continued in the same way as before. What is that,… — Marion Coutts Copy Share Image
From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge. — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper. Write it in the present tense. — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much… — Noureen DeWulf Copy Share Image
Winners live in the present tense. People who come up short are consumed with future or past. I want to be living… — Alex Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“I tend to avoid fiction about dysfunctional urban middle-class people written in the present tense. This makes it hard to find a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Nobody can understand the pressures of doing an hour-long TV show unless you've done one. Even when you're not on call, you… — Michael Learned Copy Share Image
“That’s how summer is: no past or future but all present tense, long twilights like vandals, breaking into new days.” — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but… — Katt Williams Copy Share Image
It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has… — Pat Mora Copy Share Image
“Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So what tense… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
Turkey wants a policy of engagement exactly like President Obama's new approach. Policy of engagement, less confrontation, less tense attitude, especially in… — Ahmet Davutoglu Copy Share Image
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you… — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
The atmosphere is so tense, if Elvis walked in, with a portion of chips... you could hear the vinegar sizzle on them. — Sid Waddell Copy Share Image
“When we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so… — John Green Copy Share Image
I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It's hard work making movies. It's like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it's emotional, tense work.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Oh, God, Alaska, I love you. I love you,' and the Colonel whispered, 'I'm so sorry, Pudge. I know you did,' and… — John Green Copy Share Image
Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength… — Jason Statham Copy Share Image
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
There must be justice, sensed and shared by all peoples, for, without justice the world can know only a tense and unstable… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
