Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating. — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow. — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it. — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us? — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My nerves are always, you know, shooting off and it's just, you know, it's very different. — Jeff Bauman Copy Share Image
I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve! — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
For mightier far Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on… — Catherine Zeta-Jones Copy Share Image
A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell… — John Muir Copy Share Image
However spontaneous I hope a photograph will look, I always put a lot of thought into how I can make it happen.… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I was at a bar, and this guy bumped into me, and he did not apologize, and he said, "Move!" I thought… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
A Johns Hopkins doctor says that 'we do not know why it is that the worriers die sooner than the non-worriers, but… — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
The sound of distant breakers made her heart ache with melancholy. She was in the mood when the sea has a saddening… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
I've main-evented WrestleMania a handful of times, but it never gets old. It's the same with nerves. — Randy Orton Copy Share Image
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed. — Maile Meloy Copy Share Image
My nerves usually come out in practice where I'm not hitting well and I'm freaking out. — Jessica Pegula Copy Share Image
With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers. — Byron Nelson Copy Share Image
The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself. — Dannii Minogue Copy Share Image
For my TakeOver matches, I was always just a huge mess, a huge ball of nerves. — Bayley Copy Share Image
