Inspiring Tension Quotes

#1. Lots of artists who paint have the experience to one degree or another ... where their thinking doesn't precede their doing ... It's a funny thing, what I really hate yet I have to go through with it, is the preparation.

Philip Guston

#2. I am not sure I am ready to know what I think about that, so I dare not write it out.

Shannon Hale

#3. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

Richard Siken

#4. The theory is simple.
Every boy, every man, is really
a bit of a golden retriever
or a big chocolate Lab.
Watch any man's eyes
at the bounce of a ball.
His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair,
as a primitive focus
comes to life.

Toby Barlow

#5. Christianity and monarchy are twin principles.

Honore De Balzac

#6. Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

Georg Brandes

#7. The French woman says,
'I am a woman and a Parisienne,
and nothing foreign to me
appears altogether human.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Mercy, but he smelled good. All piney and musky and manly. There should be a law.

Denise Hunter

#9. If you feel comfortable, and you feel happy, and successful at your job, then that's success. You define that as success, then that's success. Success is not a general thing. It's a personal thing. It's a personal attribute.

Lupe Fiasco

#10. Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

#11. A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Isabel Allende