I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience. — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there. — James Galway Copy Share Image
Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The dismissal of any of these people would send a useful signal to U.S. allies that the president has the nerve -… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness… — Tom Lehman Copy Share Image
It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very… — Lauren Hart Copy Share Image
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Though it is hard to believe, it is conservatively estimated that 25 to 50 million Americans carry trichinae larvae in their muscles… — Ruth Winter Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
I started going blind and my optic nerves of my eye started giving me tunnel vision. I also started fainting a bit… — John Newman Copy Share Image
I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
If there's been any use of nerve gas it's the rebels that used it. If there has been a use of chemical… — George Galloway Copy Share Image
The mind in its foolishness thinks that it is working in this body. Why should I be bound by one system of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom.… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
“Would you consider what I call the “inner eye” which opens for some of us, though not always when we want it… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A work of art can only come from the interior of man. Art is the form of the image formed upon the… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us. — James Dillet Freeman Copy Share Image
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
It's so nerve-wracking to be on a set. They're the most stressful place in the world, because you're making something permanent, and… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone… — Lev Yashin Copy Share Image
Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and… — Paula Modersohn-Becker Copy Share Image
Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors… — Preity Zinta Copy Share Image
The statistics reveal a failure of nerve on the part of many Christians. They seem to be simply unable to muster the… — Douglas Groothuis Copy Share Image
Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
When do these three days expire?" "That's what pisses me off. I don't know. He was annoyingly vague." "The nerve. Threatening you… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals… — Helen Jenkins Copy Share Image
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles,… — Edward George, Baron George Copy Share Image
To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and… — Chico Xavier Copy Share Image
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
I wasn't used to children and they were getting on my nerves. Worse, it appeared that I was a child, too. I… — Florence King Copy Share Image
If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass… — O. Henry Copy Share Image