It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.

- Bethenny Frankel

I've always thought that you live in the present, you live in a specific present. You are writing, present tense, so write in the present as it is.

- Douglas Coupland

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

- George Ade

In the '60s, '70s and '80s, everybody was pretty tense on the set.

- Gloria Stuart

Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

- James Russell Lowell

You can't look at a sleeping cat and be tense.

- Jane Pauley

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

- Joy Bryant

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

- Lee Child

There are people who criticise me, and that's normal because of the way I am on the pitch. I get angry, I get tense.

- Luis Suarez

Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off.

- Mary Douglas

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

- Matthew Goode

I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

- Susanne Bier

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

- Samantha Bond

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.

- Tiger Woods