You just go on your nerve.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

— Marjorie Benton Cooke

You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other.

— Giles Matthey

I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a…

— Frank O'Hara

absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird

— Audrey Niffenegger

Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.

— Henry David Thoreau

In adult centers the nerve paths are something fixed, ended, immutable. Everything may die, nothing may be regenerated.

— Santiago Ramon y Cajal

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

— Kate Zambreno

It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve…

— Ruth Wilson

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Buzz Aldrin

The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

— Dannii Minogue

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

— Mike Mills

First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin…

— Barton Gellman

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath