Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I live in Sheffield, and most auditions are in London, meaning I'm normally a bag of nerves on the train to London… — Jonas Armstrong Copy Share Image
Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
May I write words more naked than flesh, stronger than bone, more resilient than sinew, sensitive than nerve. — Sappho Copy Share Image
My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. — John Bonham Copy Share Image
We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain. — Horace Mann 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
It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks.… — David A. Embury Copy Share Image
There is no thirst of the soul so consuming as the desire for pardon. The sense of its bestowal is the starting-point… — Charles Brent Copy Share Image
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves… — Gordon Gee Copy Share Image
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
Run. Yoga. Hike. Generally try to outpace the nerves. If that doesn't work, one Jack on the rocks. — Cameron Esposito Copy Share Image
With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying… — Aaron Ashmore Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not… — David Foster Copy Share Image
The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess. — Susane Colasanti Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
