Nerve Quotes

386 quotes by 318 authors

It was man who ended the Cold War in case you didn't notice. It wasn't weaponry, or technology, or armies or campaigns. It was just… — John le Carre
[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through… — Tom Bissell
However often marriage is dissolved, it remains indissoluble. Real divorce, the divorce of the heart and nerve and fiber, does not exist, since there is… — Virgilia Peterson
History will remember the inhabitants of this century as the people who went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 66 years, only to languish… — Buzz Aldrin
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people. — Jennifer Hudson
I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find… — Virginia Woolf
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve. — Unknown Author
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve. I was determined to try. I was determined to try because, frankly, my life was such a mess… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I write for fanboy moments. I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore… — Joss Whedon
Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight… — Ingmar Bergman
The master maker of the human body did not create you and then run off and leave you masterless. He stayed on the job as… — B. J. Palmer
I'm a Pilates person. It's great. I had a hip problem. I had a chronic back, a pinched nerve and a hip problem and it's… — Jennifer Aniston
So what Chiropractic does, is that it simply â€œtakes the handcuffs off Natureâ€, as it were. By finding the particular vertebra that had shifted and… — B. J. Palmer
I always wanted to be an actor, but with a speech impediment it's kind of tough. I decided to roll the dice and take an… — Nicholas Brendon
I think acting is overrated. I'm not sure I enjoyed it. You never get to write your own roles. It's wonderful for some people, but… — Nina Conti
The nerve agent VX is one of the most toxic ever developed. 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi Air Force between 1983 and… — Hans Blix
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still… — Andrew Greeley
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Heroin spread that soft blanket over everything. But once the blanket was ripped off, it took a layer of skin with it, leaving nothing but… — Jerry Stahl

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