“No. Nerves, he thought, were for people who still hadn’t entirely made up their minds.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“When humans’ nerves detect big and small stimuli at the same time, they ignore the smaller one.” — Fuminori Nakamura Copy Share Image
The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it. — Jackie Vernon Copy Share Image
Winter dawn is the color of metal, The trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. — Itzhak Perlman Copy Share Image
Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have! — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a… — Charles Scott Sherrington Copy Share Image
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin… — Virginia Foxx Copy Share Image
He was still stroking the inside of her wrist, his touch doing odd delicious things to her skin and nerves. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time. — Shania Twain Copy Share Image
Coach Lombardi had the nerve to draft me number oneAnd I said I have to repay this man for having the nerve… — Herb Adderley 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
You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected. — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And… — Guy Ritchie Copy Share Image
Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
There's this unspoken history that exists between any mother and daughter, no matter how deep and loving the bond is, twenty-five years… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
...This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness… — Kristin Hannah 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
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the… — Bobby Sands Copy Share Image
I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 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
I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something… — Carolyn Parkhurst Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars. — Richard Halliburton Copy Share Image
The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. — Henry Cotton Copy Share Image
You should always view any job as just as nerve-wracking or just as exciting as any other. — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of nerves to be a sports entertainer and to be in front of those big crowds. — Lacey Evans Copy Share Image
A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight". — Rory MacDonald Copy Share Image