Nerves Quotes · Page 6

I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.

— Big Boi

My nerves sometimes hijack my body and I am no longer in the driver's seat.

— Chrishell Stause

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

— Amelie Mauresmo

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

— Megan Fox

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

— Edmund Burke

If nerves undo you, then you're unlikely to make it as a top footballer.

— Diego Forlan

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

— Stephenie Meyer

Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time,…

— Wilder Penfield

The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.

— Rumi

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I…

— Charlotte Bronte

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

— Chrissie Hynde

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to…

— Nguyen Quyen

However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist,…

— Virgilia Peterson

The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as…

— Malcolm Lowry

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do…

— Kurt Vonnegut

If you have a crippling fear of public speaking, recognize that that is perfectly normal. And know that the only way to…

— Dana Perino

Every minute of his life since then has been marked by her absence, every action has lacked dimension because she is not…

— Audrey Niffenegger

The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but…

— Maya Deren

for every person who's stepped out of line and lived to regret it, there are two people who stayed in line because…

— Gwethalyn Graham

Everything all right, Gwyneth?” asked Gideon, raising one eyebrow. “You look nervous. Would you like a cigarette to calm your nerves? What…

— Kerstin Gier

Images cluttered the pages, but one tattoo set her nerves on edge; inky black eyes surrounded by wings likes shadows coalescing. Mine.…

— Melissa Marr

Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk,…

— Peter McWilliams

He kissed me, so gently at first that I melted. I pressed close against him as the kiss deepened, curling my arms…

— L.A. Weatherly

Watching first nights, though I've seen quite a few by now, is never any better. It's a nerve-racking experience. It's not a…

— Harold Pinter

Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.…

— Oscar Wilde

When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment…

— Charles Spurgeon

I like the adrenaline of live performance, whatever that is, appearing in front of an audience of any kind, whether it's one…

— Jared Harris

What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…

— John Updike

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing…

— Nathaniel Branden

When I was born, they didn't work. They're broken, the nerves in my lower left lip. When I was kid, I would…

— Milo Ventimiglia

The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of…

— C.E. Morgan

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.

— Myles Jury

I've taken up sculpting. I thought it might help the nerves in my hands.

— Bret Hart

Once I'm on stage, the energy of the crowd wipes my nerves away.

— Thia Megia

Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

— Sean O'Casey

The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.

— Devlin Hodges

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

— Alan Rickman

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

— Horace Mann