Logo - Feel The Words

Tension Quotes

Most Famous Tension Quotes of All Time!

We have created a collection of some of the best tension quotes so you can read and share anytime with your friends and family. Share our Top 10 Tension Quotes on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest.

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.

Quotes by Zack de la Rocha

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

Quotes by William Landay

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Quotes by Wil S. Hylton

To get along with me, don't increase my tension.

Quotes by Ty Cobb

I believe our emotional tension can manifest itself physically.

Quotes by Tom Shadyac

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

Quotes by Thomas Mars

The revolutionary sees his task as liberation not only of the oppressed but also of the oppressor. Happiness can never truly exist in a state of tension.

Quotes by Steven Biko

It's a fine line between commenting on social events and exploiting them in a commercial endeavor. This is the tension with which the fashion industry struggles - unfairly.

Quotes by Robin Givhan

Why should I be feeling tension? It's The Daily Show.

Quotes by Rob Corddry

Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.

Quotes by Randall L. Stephenson

Tension is the great integrity.

Quotes by R. Buckminster Fuller

There is tension between the values of modern society and the principles of Islam.

Quotes by Pim Fortuyn

Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.

Quotes by Peter A. Levine

In 1983, all of us had U.S. passports, but because there was so much tension between America and the U.S.S.R., we were announced as a Canadian group.

Quotes by Paul Horn

With scale, there always becomes this tension of, how do you keep the start-up philosophy?

Quotes by Patrick Pichette

I have no tension. I only play to give my best.

Quotes by P. V. Sindhu

You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.

Quotes by Murray Walker

I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.

Quotes by Murray Walker

The Arab Spring has heightened the ideological tension between Ankara and Tehran, and Turkey's model seems to be winning.

Quotes by Mustafa Akyol

Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.

Quotes by Miranda July

For me it's about creating and sustaining tension for as long as possible, and I'm not generally interested in allowing that tension to be deflated, especially by a jump scare.

Quotes by Mike Flanagan

There are other ways to create tension and drama than to have somebody stabbed through the back with a sword.

Quotes by Mark Waid

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

Quotes by Marilyn Hacker

For the Arabs in Israel there is always a tension between nationality and identity.

Quotes by Mahmoud Darwish

Humor comes from the surprise release of some buried tension.

Quotes by Lorrie Moore

The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.

Quotes by Leonard Orr

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

Quotes by Leon Kass

What keeps readers turning pages is suspense, which you can create using a variety of techniques, including tension, pacing and foreshadowing.

Quotes by Leigh Michaels

There certainly is a tension between the relativity of simultaneity and non-locality in quantum theory, but it's not strong enough to add up to a falsification of either side by itself.

Quotes by Lee Smolin

I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason.

Quotes by Kevin Spacey

McQueen is an astonishing film maker. He uses really unusual shots and builds incredible dramatic tension.

Quotes by Kevin Whately

Ever since Modi became prime minister, he has given a free rein to his ministers and BJP functionaries to create an environment of communal tension and violence.

Quotes by Kapil Sibal

I grew up in the suburbs, a calm suburb, without tension, with working-class and middle-class people mixed together.

Quotes by JR

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Quotes by Joshua L. Liebman

A standup set ends on a buildup of tension and subsequent release for a big laugh.

Quotes by Josh Gondelman

A lot of weekend players struggle with putting because they have too much tension in their hands and arms, both at address and during the stroke. Tension can turn a technically perfect motion into a herky-jerky mess, especially on those knee-knockers.

Quotes by Jordan Spieth

The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

Quotes by John W. Gardner

I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.

Quotes by John Singleton

Comedy has to do with holding and releasing tension; it's very technical. It's more technical than drama.

Quotes by John Michael Higgins

I don't always set stories in villages, more often in towns. But always in smallish communities because the characters' actions are more visible there, and the dramatic tension is heightened.

Quotes by Joanna Trollope

The tension between Stephen's atheistic stance and my faith always existed, but neither of us tried to convert the other. I am not evangelical.

Quotes by Jane Hawking

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Quotes by Jane Campion

I'm a big fan of suspense and tension filmmaking, and that was my goal with 'The Conjuring.'

Quotes by James Wan

But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.

Quotes by Jacky Ickx

It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

Quotes by Iris Chang

I don't show tension and nervousness, but I know how fast my heartbeat races before a race.

Quotes by Hima Das

In any group there is more or less tension between people, and there are complicities and affinities.

Quotes by Guillaume Canet

Alfred Hitchcock had to find ways to create tension without showing it, but now with computer-generated effects you can show anything.

Quotes by Giles Duley

There is a tension between parliamentary and popular sovereignty. A lively, meaningful democracy would achieve a balance between the two.

Quotes by George Monbiot

Tension is the cornerstone of any good story.

Quotes by Eric Nylund

Do you agree that when there's tension and an obsession to want to hit the ball is when you hit it worst? You have to be loose.

Quotes by Enrique Pena Nieto

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

Quotes by Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Quotes by Dennis Weaver

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

Quotes by David Guterson

There's a fundamental tension that is hard to overcome, that what's wholesome is not convenient and vice versa.

Quotes by Daniel Lubetzky

With so much racial tension and issues between the police and black and minority ethnic groups, there needs to be more in-depth conversations if we're going to fix anything.

Quotes by Clare-Hope Ashitey

In film producing, there is an inherent tension between the director, the money and the producer, and that's what keeps it flowing and honest and accountable.

Quotes by Christine Vachon

In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.

Quotes by Charles Scott Sherrington

I don't like to watch a movie where it's just kind of like all one note, dee-dee-dee-dee. I want spikes of adrenaline and highs and lows and exciting tension release.

Quotes by Catherine Hardwicke

One way to break up any kind of tension is good deep breathing.

Quotes by Byron Nelson

I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.

Quotes by Bridget Riley

No matter how hard we strive for objectivity, writers are biased toward tension - those moments in which character is forged and revealed.

Quotes by Brad Stone

The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.

Quotes by Bob Beckel

The tension between Jews and Arabs tears us apart.

Quotes by Benny Gantz

The tension between centrality, on the one hand, and competition, on the other, is probably the oldest of all market structure issues.

Quotes by Arthur Levitt

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Quotes by Andrew Denton

In my early England days, there was a bit of tension with captain Nasser Hussain.

Quotes by Andrew Flintoff

I think, primarily, we love spy thrillers, and I think, instinctively, we love the tension that those thrillers can bring.

Quotes by Alistair Petrie

Guys, we are trying to share Unique Tension Quotes, so you will not get to read the same things again and again on our website. You can also share your favorites on Facebook or send them to a friend who loves to reading quotes.