#tension

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#bath #contemplation #does #ease #going

The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#any #consequences #each #extension #into

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#attain #cow #enjoys #feeling #function

With prose you can incorporate more details, develop scenes, sustain the tension in a special way. Prose has its own speed. ↗

— Robert Morgan

#develop #incorporate #more #own #prose

I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that. ↗

— Sean Patrick Thomas

#any #aspire #broadway #cast #developing

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am. ↗

— Joan Jett

#extension #guitar #i #i am #myself

Free time keeps me going. It's just something that's always been a part of my life. I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#because #been #dramatic #early #experimental

I was originally a painter, and I made films sort of as an extension of that, and then I started to try to make dramatic films because the early films were experimental films. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#dramatic #early #experimental #extension #films

Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples. ↗

— John Searle

#examples #extensions #find #i #ice

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#involves #moment #release #revelation #secrecy