Nerves Quotes

664 quotes by 537 authors

What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,… — John Updike
I don't think I've ever not gotten nervous. When you work so hard for one special day or routine, you want to perform it better… — Shawn Johnson
Is it a fact-or have I dreamt it-that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy… — Virginia Woolf
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain. — Jerry Lee Lewis
Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision. — Isaac Newton
My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the… — Lewis Carroll
Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need. — Bob Dylan
If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions… — Winston Churchill
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games. — Shaquille O'Neal
You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and… — Ellen DeGeneres
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Every class of society has its cant of lamentation, which is understood or regarded by none but themselves; and every part of life has its… — Samuel Johnson
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
My nerves could use a drink. — Grace Kelly
I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months. — W.C. Fields
The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest… — D. H. Lawrence
Men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and we want you. And the women are thinking, "How… — Andy Rooney
The brain is a monstrous, beautiful mess. Its billions of nerve cells - called neurons - lie in a tangled web that displays cognitive powers… — William Allan
The human brain is the last, and greatest, scientific frontier. It is truly an internal cosmos that lies contained within our skulls. The more than… — Unknown Author

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