I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves. — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as,… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We have all kinds of limitations as human beings. I mean we can't see the whole electromagnetic spectrum, we can't see the… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my… — Jeaniene Frost 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
The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Every day kill just one, rather than today five, tomorrow ten . . . that is enough for you. Then your nerves… — Erich Hartmann Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The mad sometimes drilled holes in their own heads to let the demons out. To relieve the pressure of thoughts they could… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
There is one thing that humans strive for with every cell, every gene, every nerve fiber of our beings. ... More than… — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. — Stephen Rea Copy Share Image
It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having… — Ruth Wilson Copy Share Image
When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system… — Vimala Thakar Copy Share Image
I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then… — Allen West Copy Share Image
That's an amazing feeling, to walk onstage, and you're not thinking about anything, you're not thinking about your lines or what you're… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
