Nerves Quotes

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

— Jerry Lee Lewis

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

— Alex Higgins

The blind audition process can be nerve-wracking.

— Christina Aguilera

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

— Jean Seberg

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

— Kate Middleton

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

— Paul Theroux

If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

— Shawn Johnson

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

— John Steinbeck

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

— Margaret Halsey

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

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

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

— Jack Nicklaus

I think my adrenaline always helps me deal with the nerves.

— Ronald Acuna Jr

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

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

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

— John Cowper Powys

Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve…

— Herb Adderley

Ever feel like killing somebody just to see if you could get away with it? Sure, you have. Everybody has little things…

— John Waters

San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel.

— Michael Grant

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

— Edward Abbey

It's so nerve-wracking to go out into a stadium, feeling a billion eyes upon you when you mess up your touches. That's…

— Donal Logue

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

— Bill McCollum

So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply “takes the handcuffs off Nature”, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that…

— B. J. Palmer

Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will…

— Jane Roberts

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we…

— Charles Fillmore

It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Graham Greene

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

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 problem with deterrence - apparently sometimes forgotten by our former presidents - is that it is not static, but a creature…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Genius! thou gift of Heav'n! thou Light divine! Amid what dangers art thou doom'd to shine! Oft will the body's weakness check…

— George Crabbe

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