#tension

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

War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#brings #courage #energies #highest #human

I did this movie about Salvador Dali a few years ago and had hair extensions and a little bob. That was incredibly bizarre. ↗

— Robert Pattinson

#ago #bizarre #bob #dali #did

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk. ↗

— Orson Pratt

#dimensions #drink #eat #extension #form

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

— Allen Klein

#heaviest #help #laughter #matters #relieve

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#class #classes #find #funny #i

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did. ↗

— Compay Segundo

#corner #death #did #extension #going

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. ↗

— Charles Scott Sherrington

#contraction #discharge #frequency #lessening #may

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

— Georg Simmel

#involves #moment #release #revelation #secrecy