57 Tense Quotes for You to Enjoy

We want 'McMafia' to be a tense gangster story but also a family story. It's a collusion of those two worlds. James Watkins

Family Worlds Those Collusion Tense Also Want Story Gangster Two

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense. Jane Pauley

You Sleeping Cat Tense Look

Musclemen grow on trees. They can tense their muscles and look good in a mirror. So what? I'm interested in practical strength that's going to help me run, jump, twist, punch. Jason Statham

Good Strength Me Mirror Trees Punch Run Tense Look Practical Jump Going Interested Help Grow Twist Muscles

I always kind of aim with the action stuff to make it feel like, as an audience member, you're experiencing what the people are experiencing. As soon as you go into slow-mo or repeated edits, shooting it like it's a stunt, it takes it out of that reality. The more real you make that stuff, the more tense it will be. Joel Edgerton

You Reality People Will Action Aim Member Out Kind More Takes Tense Feel Soon Stuff Like Stunt Make Edit Audience Always Audience Member Real Go Repeated Shooting Experiencing

A lot of times when I'm confident and relaxed on the court, I'm going to be a pretty tough out. But when I'm not so confident and not so relaxed, I tense up and my balls fall short and everything. It just sort of unravels. John Isner

Tough Fall Everything Relaxed Out Pretty Tense Sort Court Balls Lot Up Times Going Confident Short Just

When I'm writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that's completely self-serving. With film, it's like, the camera can't really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent. Jose Antonio Vargas

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school. Kate Burton

Me Words School Opportunity Decision Made Few Drama Drama School States About Had He Tense Go Very Did Wanted Central Dad United United States Britain British Speech

I find it hard to be joyful on screen because I'm so tense. Lea Seydoux

On-Screen Find Tense Joyful Because Screen Hard

My stepdad didn't have a father growing up, so he didn't know how to have a father-son style conversation. Plus, we had a tense relationship in which he never really offered me advice. Lecrae

Me Relationship Conversation Father Advice Style Plus Never Had He Tense Know How Up Offered Which Really Growing Growing Up

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense. Lee Child

Character You Book Tense Always Move Screen

I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another. Margaret Heffernan

Buy Me Be Happy Happy Mind Argument Thinking Other Evidence Kids Tense Stuff Like Know Talk Couple Occasionally Another Hear Families Just Next Even Each Honest

You were not supposed to show off in Negroland because you are supposed to be perfectly decorous and well behaved. You were also not supposed to tell any stories that reflected badly on the group because that reflected badly on the race. I use past tense, but it still feels like present tense. Margo Jefferson

You Past Show Off Group Tell Badly Tense Perfectly Feels Like Supposed Also Well Because Still Were Off Reflected Behaved Any Stories Race Use Show Present Present Tense

The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running. Nik Wallenda

One of my personal indulgences is getting a weekly massage - it helps to re-align my body. I usually feel so much less tense after I've gotten rid of some knots in my shoulders and back. Noureen DeWulf

Back Some Weekly Tense Feel Knots Massage Gotten Personal Getting After Much Body Shoulders Less Rid Helps

From my youth, I'd never stopped thinking in the future tense. Paul Allen

Future Youth Thinking Never Tense Stopped

We tell infertile couples all the time that are having trouble conceiving because of the woman not ovulating, 'Just relax. Drink a glass of wine. And don't be so tense and uptight because all that adrenaline can cause you not to ovulate.' Phil Gingrey

Time You Woman Cause Relax Wine Trouble Tell Having Drink Adrenaline Glass Tense Conceiving Couples Because Just Uptight

Like it or not, Google and the Chinese government are stuck in a tense, long-term relationship, and can look forward to more high-stakes shadow-boxing in the netherworld of the world's most elaborate system of censorship. Rebecca MacKinnon

Government Relationship World Censorship Google System More Stuck Tense Long-Term Like Look Most Elaborate Chinese Chinese Government Forward

Musicians get tense at big gigs. Some you can't talk to before the concert; some you can't talk to afterwards; some need the same size dressing rooms as others; others need bigger; some have comments to make on others' musicianship or how a particular song ought to be played. Richard Desmond

You Musicians Song Big Before Others Ought Musicianship Gigs Some Dressing Tense Particular Talk Make Concert How Comments Get Same Size Bigger Afterwards Rooms Played Need

I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense. Sarah Sutton

Doctor Seven Bit Tense Doctor Who Because Got Years Impression End Walked Little Little Bit Working Used Who Found Stressful

Sometimes you are physically tired at night, but your brain is functioning too much to go to sleep. If you can have software that helps you understand how you can shift from such a tense situation to being more relaxed, then that would help. Satoru Iwata

Tired You Sometimes Too Much Situation Too Software Relaxed Would More Physically Tense Understand How Go Shift Brain Being Then Much Your Help Helps Night Sleep

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had. Tiger Woods

Situation Think See Staying Pretty More Knack Had Tense Clearly Always Gets Just Even Keel Things

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