I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself. — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant… — Rene Leriche Copy Share Image
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright. — Constance Marie Copy Share Image
I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the… — Thierry Henry Copy Share Image
The stimulus of competition, when applied at an early age to real thought processes, is injurious both to nerve-power and to scientific… — Mary Everest Boole Copy Share Image
It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease. — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
True humanity consists not in a squeamish ear; it consists not in starting or shrinking at tales of misery, but in a… — Charles James Copy Share Image
The bicycle... has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Europeans take their soccer pretty seriously. So, when this Turkish TV host had the nerve to criticize the local team, the fans… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the… — Hans Berger Copy Share Image
There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year… — Earl Weaver Copy Share Image
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a… — Rose Leslie Copy Share Image
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye… — Novalis Copy Share Image
Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves. — Nick Lowe Copy Share Image
You have to bury nerves, because they can either destroy you or give you that extra boost. You have to use your… — Tori Bowie Copy Share Image
but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy… — Sergei Lukyanenko Copy Share Image
Awake, my soul! Stretch every nerve, And press with vigor on; A heavenly race demands thy zeal, And an immortal crown. — Philip Doddridge Copy Share Image
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper! — Bella Heathcote Copy Share Image
Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in… — Jennifer Hudson Copy Share Image
I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with… — Jessica Ennis Copy Share Image
“the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when it was made clear by Erasistratos.” — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination. — Sheila Rowbotham Copy Share Image
That stupid Charlie Brown! He had the nerve to say I'm not perfect!" "So I suppose you hit him, huh?" "Rats! I… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
