Tense Quotes - Page 13

• Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Excellence, Hesitant

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• It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Artist, Journey, Snow

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Funny, Sleep, Years

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• Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Success, Creative, Matter

  Norman Vincent Peale (1986). “The Tough-Minded Optimist”, Fawcett Books

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• Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Sleep, Impossible, Sermons

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• 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 anything well except get angrier. That's why I like fighting guys who are pumped up on steroids. Fighting is all about relaxing and releasing tension, so your body is flexible and fluid, able to bend and flex quickly, like water. I like fighting angry guys who are really tense. They can't think right, and they can't fight right.

  Frank Shamrock

  Fighting, Thinking, Mma

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• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Rough Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting.

  Emily Oster

  Fighting, People, Doe

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• 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 heaven but might be hell. This is a deep and exciting novel, as unsettling as it is gripping.

  Lisa Unger

  Memories, Dark, Past

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• 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 keeps the audience in a state of tense expectancy. Unfortunately for the fans, however, recent tests reveal that the wisp of chiffon which stands between the publisher and the postal laws has the tensile strength of drop-forged steel.

  S. J. Perelman

  Hero, Law, Fans

  "Captain Future, Block That Kick!". "The Most of S. J. Perelman", p. 72, 1992.

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• Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

  Anton Chekhov

  Lying, Men, Ducks

  "Difficult People". Short story by Anton Chekhov, 1886.

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• I don't like being on a horse. That's the only negative of doing a Western. I like the whole get up, and I look great in a hat. But I get tense around horses. So, if they could make a fake horse, then I'd do a Western.

  Adam Sandler

  Horse, Fake, Hats

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the painter sat or stood or crouched in front of the canvas. Paint is a cast made of the painter's movements, a portrait of the painter's body and thoughts.

  James Elkins

  Portraits, Records, Movement

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• The self must be a tense bow. It must struggle with opposites rather than harmonize them, rather than turn the tension over to the great instruments of last manhood the skilled bow unbenders and Jesuits of our days, the psychiatrists, who, in the same spirit and as part of the same conspiracy of modernity as the peace virtuosos, reduce conflict.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Self, Opposites

  Allan Bloom (1988). “Closing of the American Mind”, Simon & Schuster

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• Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

  George Balanchine

  Beautiful, Dance, Looks

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for
  that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.

  Samuel Beckett

  One Day, Watches, Goes On

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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