Nerve Quotes
386 Nerve quotes by 318 unique authors
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For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which…
— Virginia Woolf
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It would perhaps not be amiss to point out that he had always tried to be a good dog. He had tried to do all…
— Stephen King
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If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
— Bob Dylan
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I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?
— Janet Evanovich
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We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though…
— Graham Greene
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The thing about growing up with Fred and George," said Ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Ignore any loss of nerve, ignore any loss of self-confidence, ignore any doubt or confusion. Move on believing in love, in peace, and harmony, and…
— Anne Rice
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Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray…
— Markus Zusak
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I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
— James Patterson
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Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity...
— John Muir
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Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne because that’s what…
— Paris Hilton
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Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
— J. G. Ballard
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People with self-respect exhibit a certain toughness, a kind of moral nerve; they display what was once called *character,* a quality which, although approved in…
— Joan Didion
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But like a gambler at a slot machine, hoping the next spin would change her life for the better, she closed in before she lost…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well,…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own living body than ever…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.…
— Markus Zusak
Who Wrote These Nerve Quotes
318 authors contributed a total of 386 Nerve Quotes, led by these top contributors: