Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
The tension between the Capulets and the Montagues is like a gang rivalry, and that has everything to do with Compton. — Corey Hawkins Copy Share Image
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
To create tension, dialogue needs to be stretched out. That is, characters should not be immediately responsive. — Sol Stein Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues. — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
In business, there are times when you disagree, and sometimes it turns out that you're just plain wrong. Humor takes away tension… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes. — Sean Brady Copy Share Image
Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension.… — Carlos Cuaron Copy Share Image
“As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few… — Gerry Abbey Copy Share Image
A person comes home with all the tension of his life, he or she is totally drained due to all the stress… — Rakhi Sawant Copy Share Image
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
For China to continue to enjoy economic prosperity, it needs to foster trusting international relationships, not tensions ... and it is important… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
There are fundamental tensions between the biological reality of the planet and the economic reality. To some extent you can adapt the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
I like the idea of building the suspense and taking it all the way up to the very last second with the… — Corey Feldman Copy Share Image
There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started… — Geoff Johns Copy Share Image
“Gabriel did not become Silas all at once. He learned him in fragments— voice, gait, silence, appetite. He learned where to pause… — Valon G Copy Share Image
Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the… — Marva Dawn Copy Share Image
We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Slowly his resistance ebbed. She felt the change in his body, the relaxing of tension, his shoulders curving around her as if… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
Well, thanks. It was nice of you to give me anything." The tension between them seemed to press down on her like… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“Thus there is in the life of a collector a dialectical tensions between the poles of disorder and order.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Every day I pray. I yield myself to God and the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
I am not afraid to appear in Israel, although when I come to a place like Israel, I know it's not a… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
Life is like the harp string, if it is strung too tight it won't play, if it is too loose it hangs,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do. — Latrell Sprewell Copy Share Image
Constant slumping increases the stress on the spine and joints, and can lead to headaches, neck and shoulder tension, and lower-back pain. — Denise Austin Copy Share Image
People generally report higher levels of stress, depression, and tension after watching TV. It seems that TV's main virtue is that it… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension. — F. Matthias Alexander Copy Share Image
A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience — Bridget Riley Copy Share Image
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
The great teachers are always those who can live the tension. They are not criticizing everybody, they're not complaining. They give young… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
