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
Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile… — Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle Copy Share Image
The only thing poverty does is grind down your nerve endings to a point that you can work harder and stoop lower… — Rick Bragg 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
It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body. — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my… — Cherie Currie Copy Share Image
But the fact that most of the show you can't be prepared for, you have no idea really what's coming is initially… — Brian Henson Copy Share Image
... We must remember that there's more than one story and plot in every novel. There are at least as many stories… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm... — James O'Barr 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
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Donna E. Smyth - adventures with words; she is always doing something new and unique. Beginning with her visceral morality, her stories… — George Elliott Clarke Copy Share Image
The morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I would say facing the obstacles surrounding the day-to-day pressures of an elite athlete at a very young age was not the… — Tara Lipinski Copy Share Image
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard. — Myles Jury 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
I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
