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
One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a… — Andy Richter Copy Share Image
There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Johnathan had known he wouldn't be able to simply shut off his thoughts and go to sleep. His entire body - everything… — Lyn Ducoty Copy Share Image
“Enoch could respond with nothing more than a simple gesture in the orbs' direction. His brain was frozen. He could not think… — S.R. Ford Copy Share Image
Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache,… — Hans Selye Copy Share Image
Exercise stimulates your circulation, massages your internal organs, stretches and strengthens your muscles, and energizes you. Exercise is also a great way… — Ellen Bass Copy Share Image
My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
In trusting, we let ourselves go. We know that all kinds of unexpected events may come our way. Our tension eases, our… — Piero Ferrucci Copy Share Image
There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
Rust, corrosion, wind, rain. The nibbling teeth of mice and the acrid droppings of insects and the devouring jaws of years. The… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“Arthur takes a seat beside her. The colored lights bounce off his eyeglasses and Louisa loses all interest in time-travel technology. The… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to… — Andrew Tudor Copy Share Image
I've always strived to maintain a very healthy, friendly working situation, and lo and behold, it only took forty years, so the… — John Lydon Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Humor relieves the tension between what we see or desire but repress in order to sustain a survivable illusion about the world… — Lynda Williams Copy Share Image
So it helped me to just let go of all my tensions and feelings about that world and say 'OK, this is… — Matthew Sweet Copy Share Image
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market… — Lucas Papademos Copy Share Image
I work via the high-tension-wire method, which is maybe going for long periods without writing while the tension builds up - when… — Jayne Anne Phillips Copy Share Image
“She was held in the tension just before movement, about to walk back toward the house. Later she would think, If I… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
... our diagnosis and treatment of of tension myositis syndrome represent yet another instance of what is possible when the power of… — John E. Sarno Copy Share Image
A lot of actors say that no villain wants to be a villain, generally. They don't might being evil, maybe, but they… — Liam McIntyre Copy Share Image
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an… — Earle Birney Copy Share Image
I'm sure I'll also be very attentive to how tension is built and maintained in a story. I think this curiosity is… — Samanta Schweblin Copy Share Image
A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem… — George Polya Copy Share Image
We should not rule out the possibility that Trump's diplomacy could deescalate Middle East strife and international tensions, give the US a… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
The greatest contributor to the feeling of tension and fear of war arose from the power of the bombing aeroplane. If all… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Many writers struggle with exposition in their novels. Often they heap it on in large chunks of straight narrative. Back story –… — James Scott Bell Copy Share Image
You've been somebody long enough. You spent the first half of your life becoming somebody. Now you can work on becoming nobody,… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“so much is happening now; you must be patient like someone who is sick, and confident like someone who is recovering; for… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader… — Samanta Schweblin Copy Share Image
