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
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
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
Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York… — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
I'm trying to stay as calm as possible and focus one day at a time, but when reality sets in, I feel… — Shawn Johnson Copy Share Image
I am a central European with an English education and a deplorable tendency to constant self-analysis. I am irritable and have weak… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
'Indiana Jones' wasn't physically tough, but they are the only two films I've ever been ill on. On 'The Last Crusade,' I… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs,… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my… — Cherie Currie 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
So we down-to-earth, gutsy, tough, realistic, and practical types have just been squandering billions of dollars and unimaginable amounts of energy, nerve-work,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“My nerves needed a break, not a reminder of how much trouble we were in. I prowled around, but it didn't help.… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding… Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve. — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out… — Thomas C Foster Copy Share Image
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to… — Ariel Sharon 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
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient… — Eamon Dunphy Copy Share Image
“So, my ocular nerves are fair game?” Will says, unbuckling to get out of the car. “I could repair them. Despite being… — Leta Blake Copy Share Image
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question. — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
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
Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should… — Mary McGrory Copy Share Image
I was in L.A. during an earthquake in 1994, an experience that really stressed me out. I started doing yoga to calm… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two… — Noel Gallagher Copy Share Image
I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us. — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
A certain amount of the kundalini is always floating through the ida and the pingala. These two little nerve tubes, on either… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
