Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas. — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The moment you resolve to be victorious, every nerve and fiber in your being will immediately orient itself toward your success. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I played on this soccer team, called Hollywood United, and there were a lot of old ex-international pro-players. We played this benefit… — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls.… — Joel Davis Copy Share Image
When it's wet, you're much more tense on the steering wheel, you have to dance with the throttle and the brakes more.… — Allan McNish Copy Share Image
Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to… — George Clinton Copy Share Image
I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself. — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant… — Rene Leriche Copy Share Image
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“So, my ocular nerves are fair game?” Will says, unbuckling to get out of the car. “I could repair them. Despite being… — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice… — Nicholas Brendon Copy Share Image
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to… — Ariel Sharon Copy Share Image
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out… — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
“My nerves needed a break, not a reminder of how much trouble we were in. I prowled around, but it didn't help.… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
