Tense Quotes

252 Tense quotes by 200 unique authors

When you're angry, you can't fight rationally. Your body chemistry is all messed up. Your energy goes to all the wrong places. You can't do… — Frank Shamrock
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well. — Joe Bradley
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why… — Emily Oster
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like… — Lisa Unger
In pulp fiction it is a rigid convention that the hero's shoulders and the heroine's balcon constantly threaten to burst their bonds, a possibility which… — S. J. Perelman
I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored. — Catherine Deneuve
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would… — Charlaine Harris
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all. — Ken Kesey
You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their… — Christine Lagarde
Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain. — James Russell Lowell
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. If you don't… — George Lucas
Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you… — Joan Lunden
With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear. — Yo-Yo Ma
I love plays. Even bad ones. I like the fact that actual live, breathing people are standing before you in tense situations that you are… — Lorrie Moore
Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown,… — Michelle Obama
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually… — Yoko Ono
The rules of suspense are that you do know, and you just don't know when. In the Hitchcock rules of suspense, you are supposed to… — Gus Van Sant
People tend to vote the present tense - not the subjective. — Diane Sawyer
Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. — Sonia Sotomayor

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