Wassily Kandinsky Quotes

Suspense is worse than disappointment.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

There's always nerves when you're releasing something.

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in a collective breath, and then you can hear a pin drop, and I'm feeling nauseous and so desperately hoping that it's not me, that it's not me, that it's not me. Effie Trinket crosses back to the podium, smoothes the slip of paper, and reads out the name in a clear voice. And it's not me. It's Primrose Everdeen.

I was once asked what I thought was the most disquieting thing you could see on the screen and I said, "An open door".

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Tension means hurry, fear, doubt. Tension means a constant effort to protect, to be secure, to be safe. Tension means preparing for the tomorrow now, or for the afterlife - afraid tomorrow you will not be able to face the reality, so be prepared. Tension means the past that you have not lived really but only somehow bypassed; it hangs, it is a hangover, it surrounds you.

Eight, sir; seven, sir; Six, sir; five, sir; Four, sir; Three, sir; Two, sir; one! Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, And dissension have begun.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

I'm waiting for the floor to drop out from under me.

Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might have replied, but I couldn’t be sure.

White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to live without fear and they end up killing their creativity in the process.

The word reality frightens me.

"Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with its illusion of depth, pulling me up. "Yeah, that's true," I say. But then after I think about it for a second, I add, "But then again, if you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all."

We all watched Al open the door. Turning, he waved to us, then passed the threshold. The door shut behind him. I waited for something to happen. Nothing did. “This isn’t good,” Quen said. I choked back my burst of laughter, knowing it would come out sounding hysterical.

Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.