I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper! — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your… — Tori Bowie Copy Share Image
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye… — Novalis Copy Share Image
It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The woman who became the Duchesse d'Angoulême did indeed have painful memories, but she was not only very brave but I would… — Susan Nagel Copy Share Image
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking.… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and… — Tama J. Kieves Copy Share Image
You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more,… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision.… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will… — Bernard DeVoto Copy Share Image
It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just… — Jerry Moss Copy Share Image
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence: the murderous… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I often do crazy siren noises, or, like, a high-pitched dolphin, just to make sure that all my range is there. I… — Ella Henderson Copy Share Image
Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
I realize that some of you may have come in hopes of hearing tips on how to become a professional writer. I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Ready made opinions can be distributed day by day through the press, radio, and so on, again and again, till they reach… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself… — Dmitry Medvedev Copy Share Image
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad says that the black man in America, for the past 400 years, has been like a boy in… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny,… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
If we reason, we would be understood; if we imagine, we would that the airy children of our brain were born anew… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
Okay, okay, backing off. Um, I suppose this would be a bad time to ask you to talk to Pete for me,… — Jennifer Rardin Copy Share Image
If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong… — Fred Barnes Copy Share Image
It takes something to get married: nerve, hope, a strong desire to make a certain statement - and it takes something to… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
