Nerves Quotes

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

— Alex Higgins

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

— Jerry Lee Lewis

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

— Jean Seberg

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

— Christina Aguilera

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

— Kate Middleton

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

— Paul Theroux

Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever

— Howard Fast

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

— Virginia Wade

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

— Richard Owen Cambridge

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

— Ed Seykota

Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks.

— Cameron Esposito

Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

— Jack Nicklaus

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.

— Buzz Aldrin

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.

— June Havoc

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

— Margaret Halsey

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

— John Steinbeck

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which…

— Oscar Wilde

I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then…

— Allen West

nerve, not talent, is the one necessary and sufficient trait for success. (Wouldn't it be ideal if it were talent? But talent…

— Lynda Obst

The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from…

— Marcia Angell

I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.

— Susane Colasanti

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at…

— Anonymous

Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.

— John Cowper Powys

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of…

— Madonna Ciccone

There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years…

— Stephen Karam

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed…

— Scott Stossel

The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And…

— Guy Ritchie

...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness…

— Kristin Hannah

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the…

— Richard Dawkins

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own…

— Graham Greene

When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same.…

— Libba Bray

It takes a lot of nerve to bang your fist and demand tougher juvenile gun laws while doing nothing to enforce the…

— Bill McCollum

I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue…

— Madeline Miller

Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In…

— Steven Levenkron

The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than…

— Doris Humphrey

Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.…

— George Steiner

I don't believe in art like I used to. I believe in something beyond it, something that contains art and everything else.…

— Jim Woodring

Hamilton dabbed a tissue at the cut under his eye. "Except for the time I met the Great Khali, that was the…

— Gordon Korman

Everyone has taste, yet it is more of a taboo subject than sex or money. The reason for this is simple: claims…

— Stephen Bayley