Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend.

Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.

We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.

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

And shooting things in a documentary style was a good way to create tension and energy without money.

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

Whatever tension is on set can end up on your face.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

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

The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior.

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

In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.