Tense Quotes

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

It's always tense when you move a character from a book to the screen. Always tense.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

I'm always pretty tense about everything when it comes to work.

America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

Journalistic hours are odd and long and often tense, and newsmen seek each other out as natural allies in a world that is so much part of them, but which they visit so randomly.

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

In some cases, she was actively trying not to make friends, though she usually stopped short of being rude. (Uptight, tense, and mildly misanthropic? Yes. Rude? No.)

"Never speak of me in the past tense". My presence here will be many times greater without the burden of my tortured body.

Eddie became about one percent less tense.

As far as we know, everyone’s right— Strigoi don’t want to hang out in Palm Springs.” Eddie became about one percent less tense.

Learning to live in the present tense-one that's free from the failures of the past and the anxieties of the future-is a wonderful gift, and one you always should be striving for.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

If in a tense or nervous situation, take a moment to center and ground yourself and make a thoughtful decision. Remember that nothing is as important as it first seems.

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Once I was on the job, once I had got started, I felt safe enough, but the anticipation made me tense.

Im not tense, just terribly, terribly alert." Nick

She’s my wife. (Stryker) Was. You seem to have forgotten an important verb tense. (Zephyra)

I think they were afraid that some of us would try to kill ourselves or something because they looked very tense and one of them kept touching his beard.

I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

He doesn’t scowl, but his mouth is so tense that I know he’s angry with me. 'Don’t be an idiot,' he says. 'An idiot?' Is he talking about the blanket? 'You were lying.

The only pleasure of endurance is its past tense.

Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.

There's a desire for me in the work, even when I'm looking at the past, to be looking from the present. It's to be here now. It's looking in the present tense.

The success of the future does not lie solely on the safety of the past, but relies broadly on the security of the present.

My past lives alone. That's why my loneliness wants to live in the past

If you’re supposed to work with someone, I’d recommend not getting all hot and bothered with them the night before. The word of the day was “tense.