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
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least.… — Emily Oster Copy Share Image
When things get unbearable, I wrap myself into a tight ball and shut my eyes. Every muscle in my body is tense.… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
I don't watch scary movies. Sometimes, even having to read the script and do an episode of 'Grimm,' I get a little… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and… — Benjamin Hoff 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
...I also know - and this won't alter the course of history or your personal view of me - that you will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the evening bus, the tense, pinched faces of young file clerks and elderly secretaries tell us more than we care to… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
The mood, it is fair to say, was reasonably tense. As a result of the conclusion of the ballot, most members are… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
Carl Jung tells in one of his books of a conversation he had with a Native American chief who pointed out to… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only… — William Lyon Phelps Copy Share Image
In acute diseases the physician must conduct his inquiries in the following way. First he must examine the face of the patient,… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
For me, the best time to pray is the very moment a tense situation or an unspiritual attitude overtakes me. God the… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
A quarter of America is a dramatic, tense, violent country, exploding with contradictions, full of brutal, physiological vitality, and that is the… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. — Lee Child Copy Share Image
I think it rather fine, this necessity for the tense bracing of the will before anything worth doing can be done. I… — Arnold Bennett 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
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
"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
