Nervous Quotes

1080 Nervous quotes by 897 unique authors

Basically there are two types of animals: animals, and animals that have no brains; they are called plants. They don't need a nervous system because… — Rodolfo Llinas
You should never get nervous about anything. What today seems important tomorrow isn't so any more. — Tito Vilanova
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
On game day, I'm as nervous as a pig in a packing plant. — Darrell Royal
And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time,… — Rod Steiger
I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers! — Tennessee Ernie Ford
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. — Andy Gibb
If you become president, you're guaranteed to develop some nervous habit. — Rich Little
Only when you're nervous do you get nasty. — Unknown Author
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. — Unknown Author
Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast… — J. C. R. Licklider
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
Even when I took the drugs I realized that this just wasn't fun anymore. The drugs had become a part of my routine. Something to… — Cherie Currie
I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good. — Misty May-Treanor
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us… — Susan Sontag
One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote… — Dave Franco
The fact that we are born with the potential to go from simple survival to God-consciousness is the remarkable trait that sets our nervous systems… — Deepak Chopra
Nervous? He's tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter muscle at a 4th of July soiree on Fire Island. — Dennis Miller
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear someone I don't… — Kingsley Amis
Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters. — M.F.K. Fisher
It's very difficult to explain the effect the first blues record I heard had on me, except to say that I recognized it immediately. It… — Eric Clapton
In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality. At times monstrous images are created,… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker?… — Dale Carnegie
I am nervous that the craft of songwriting is taking a nose dive...And since I'm a songwriter and I connect with an interpretative, you know,… — Barry Manilow

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