Tensing Quotes

#1. Make a conscious effort to loosen your hands and let your arms feel soft when you're at address. Take the club back a bit shorter, and feel as if you're cracking a whip on the way down - not tensing up to smash something hard.

Ernie Els

#2. Even Rudy stood completely erect, feigning nonchalance, tensing himself against the tension.

Markus Zusak

#3. Ever since I've met you, I've wanted to break every rule." Aiden turned away, the muscles in his neck tensing. He sighed. "You'll become the centre of someone's world one day. And he'll be the luckiest son of a bitch on this earth.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#4. Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.

Steven Erikson

#5. [ ... ] the body is what we lean toward,
tensing as it darts, dancing away.
but it's the voice that enters us. even
saying nothing. even saying nothing
over and over absently to itself

Tracy K. Smith

#6. I paused, tensing for a wave of conditioning, so used to obeying all my life. Nothing. Heavenly nothing. Blessed fucking nothing.

Pepper Winters

#7. You have such a perfect dick," she says as I lean back and close my eyes, my body tensing as I try to restrain myself. "I could write a song about it.

Karina Halle

#8. Travis walked me to class, his grip tensing a few times when my feet slipped on the ice. "You should be more careful," he teased.
"I'm doing it on purpose. You're such a sucker."
"If you want my arms around you, all you have to do is ask," he said, pulling me into his chest.

Jamie McGuire

#9. I had always seen myself as a star; I wanted to be a galaxy.

Twyla Tharp

#10. Display your passion, and others will be inspired. Enthusiasm is contagious.

Del Suggs

#11. I will never change

Eric Turner

#12. I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.

Anthony Head

#13. Her mouth has always lacked any type of filter, a problem exacerbated by her refusal to lie about anything. Two qualities guaranteed to turn every conversation into a battlefield.

Gena Showalter

#14. I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

Rick Pitino

#15. When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.

Jacob K. Javits

#16. Sadat made us feel more secure.

Naguib Mahfouz

#17. When a woman walks into a room, her outfit is the first thing she says, before she even opens her mouth. Women are judged on what they wear in a way men would find incomprehensible.

Caitlin Moran

#18. Please hear this: There are not 'schizophrenics.' There are people with schizophrenia.

Elyn Saks

#19. I don't know any writers who don't drink.

James Baldwin

#20. Worrying was painful ... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

Laura Moriarty

#21. In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued my close collaboration with Charles Gilbert on the circuitry of primary visual cortex.

Torsten Wiesel

#22. A girl came up to me in a bar and said she wanted to be my apple pie. I wish I'd said something cool, but I was stunned.

Jason Biggs

#23. Many people will not head down the street until all the lights are green. That is why they don't go anywhere.

Robert T. Kiyosaki