Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their… — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
You might not feel like playing pretty all the time. Instead, you might want to play something nasty....you might want to play… — George Benson Copy Share Image
There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement… — Kazimir Malevich 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
Something is missing: that's as close as I can come to naming the sensation, an awareness of missed or thwarted connections, or… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
You put on such a brave front. But I know if I took another step toward you, you'd wet your pants." "With… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
My natural tendency is to fall in love with language and character and setting, and kind of forget about pacing. Narrative tension… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
From the moment they had left the Earth, their own weight, and that of the Projectile and the objects therein contained, had… — Jules Verne 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
Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
I think my pictures are really about a kind of tension between my need to make a perfect picture and the impossibility… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Kristen is really focused and really quiet, as an actress. She just does her thing, but she's cool. I like her. I… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
Leo and Soledad simultaneously gave out a sort of half laugh, half snort. It was loud, and it was relieved, and it… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let… — Fuzzy Zoeller Copy Share Image
A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh. — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension - which is something you want in a really good nonfiction… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
The more I think about sex, the better it gets. Here we have a purpose in life, good for the blood circulation,… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
