The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I don't agree with something, I let people know, and it occasionally leads to tension. But I usually iron things out.
Estelle
Tension is the great integrity.
R. Buckminster Fuller
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
John W. Gardner
The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.
Marilyn Hacker
Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.
John Michael Higgins
But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
Jacky Ickx
Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
Quincy Jones
There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.
Leon Kass
If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them... →
Chuck Klosterman