#tension

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tension




I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.


John le Carre


#good #got #haven #i #immediately

The knowledge and understanding of the world which science gives us and the magnificent opportunity which it extends to us to control and use the world for the extension of our pleasure in it has never been greater than it now is.


Polykarp Kusch


#control #extends #extension #gives #greater

A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.


Camille Paglia


#android #barbie #children #complaint #creep

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.


Zack de la Rocha


#give #i #me #minimal #sacrifice

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.


C. Neil Strait


#leisure #life #recreate #renew #tension

There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.


Michael Ondaatje


#potential #romantic-potential #sexual-tension #romantic

She had thought of literature all these years (her seclusion, her rank, her sex must be her excuse) as something wild as the wind, hot as fire, swift as lightning; something errant, incalculable, abrupt, and behold, literature was an elderly gentleman in a grey suit talking about duchesses… Orlando then came to the conclusion (opening half-a-dozen books)…that it would be impolitic in the extreme to wrap a ten-pound note round the sugar tongs when Miss Christina Rossetti came to tea…next (here were half-a-dozen invitations to celebrate centenaries by dining) that literature since it all these dinners must be growing very corpulent; next (she was invited to a score of lectures on the Influence of this upon that; the Classical revival; the Romantic survival, and other titles of the same engaging kind) that literature since it listened to all these lectures must be growing very dry; next (here she attended a reception given by a peeress) that literature since it wore all those fur tippets must be growing very respectable; next (here she visited Carlyle’s sound-proof room at Chelsea) that genius since it needed all this coddling must be growing very delicate…


Virginia Woolf


#pretensions #respect

As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#extension #i #job #model #other

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.


John Avlon


#fear #find #follows #new #now

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 I was getting into.


Lance Armstrong


#athlete #competing #country #getting #had