There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
No clowns were funny. That was the whole purpose of a clown. People laughed at clowns, but only out of nervousness. The… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of… — James Maslow Copy Share Image
“ Will your dad beat me up if I ask for your number? She wrote it down, smiling, feeling somehow significant and… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
Throughout my career, nervousness and stage-fright have never left me before playing. And each of the thousands of concerts I have played… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
You get this feeling in bobsled, like a combination of excitement, anxiety, and pure nervousness, and you get that combination only very… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Most fighters are nervous before they go out there. Nervousness makes the body tight. I don't like that. I want to fight… — Shinsuke Nakamura Copy Share Image
We suffer from a terrible poverty of civic discourse in this country. Surely, it is outside of America's best traditions to send… — Geneva Overholser Copy Share Image
Many mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse among the young. Why hesitate to say… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain… — Ben Brantley Copy Share Image
“My friend Jenny said once that I have a calming presence. Maybe it's because I am so quiet. Dogs and cats always… — Charles Forsman Copy Share Image
I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Parliament will also struggle with Shakespeare. Rappers stutter too when they flirt. The palms of poised politicians sweat. Police officers fart. Princesses… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest. — Jentezen Franklin Copy Share Image
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
As a child working in films was like a hobby but now it has turned into a profession. And with that, it's… — Kunal Khemu Copy Share Image
My dad didn't often bring me to the set, being an actor himself, so my infancy as an actor was wracked with… — Josh Brolin Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel surrounded by this dark cloud, and it feels like I can't breathe. It's nervousness and I don't know what… — Mikaela Shiffrin Copy Share Image
I'm always nervous before I go on stage, but once I'm out there everything is great and it's my favorite place to… — Christina Aguilera Copy Share Image
For my first World Cup I don't think there was any sense of nervousness because you kind of go with nothing to… — Alex Greenwood Copy Share Image
If you are losing your peace in your quest for peace, you are not on the road to peace. The road to… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it… — Cole Sprouse Copy Share Image
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake. — Joseph Pilates Copy Share Image
“She was white, wore perfume and smiled openly with the Negro customers, so I knew she was sophisticated. Other people's sophistication tended… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“I don't know what the usual reactions are of a man who goes to propose marriage. In fiction his throat is dry… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Nervousness was never something I would ever associate with the Beatles ever. A Hard Day's Night was relatively unscathed by marijuana, but… — Richard Lester Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
I will talk about it on Monday. I will answer every one of their questions. I always feel nervous when I have… — Zulima Farber Copy Share Image
I put out my hand to shake hands with Zero Mostel, and he took my hand [and] he pulled me up to… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
The minute I feel nervousness or anxiety or fear, I go, 'No, no, that's not a thought that I need to have… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
When I do a film, the days before or the night before, I throw up. Sometimes it's just in my mouth and… — Donald Sutherland Copy Share Image
In the nineteeth century, knitting was prescribed to women as a cure for nervousness and hysteria. Many new knitters find this sort… — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Copy Share Image
“It is perhaps symbolic of power, Anand mused, that nervousness trails confidence like a shadow. You do something that you think is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“These are icebreakers. You’re not supposed to break the ice, you’re just supposed to coat your voice with as many layers of… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image