Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The human body has over 95 billion nerves and you're capable of getting on every single one of them.” — Ellie Messe Copy Share Image
It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim. — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood. — Helio Gracie Copy Share Image
The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work… — John Gregory Dunne Copy Share Image
All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she… — Ed O'Neill Copy Share Image
The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No, I'm afraid they might slip and hit a nerve and I'd end up with one side of my face hanging down… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
When you're used to making your money a certain way, especially when you fall in love with the way you're doing it,… — Demetria McKinney Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a… — Charles James Copy Share Image
If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
So much of the way a singer physically damages their voice could be caused by stress or nerves. I would never be… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which,… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Yoga stimulates different nerves in your body, especially the Vagus nerve that carries information from the brain to most of the body's… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is touching a nerve because people want the wall to be built. They want to see an end to illegal… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams.… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to… — Susanna Tamaro Copy Share Image
I was demanding of myself a deeper and greater honesty, more and more revelation in my work in order to give it… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image