Nervous Quotes

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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. — Elwyn Brooks White
The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical… — Simone Weil
Negative thinking will always lead to failure and nervous prostration; but positive faith- positive thinking -will lead you towards happy, healthy, and abundant living. — Albert E Cliffe
In my experience, clever food is not appreciated at Christmas. It makes the little ones cry and the old ones nervous. — Jane Grigson
Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to… — Judith Thurman
As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember… — Lucy Fry
All the information in the universe, plus several bits from other dimensions that I'm still trying to sort out, have just been mainlined into my… — R. U. Sirius
Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. — Susan Sontag
Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said… — Dick Butkus
So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was… — Unknown Author
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In… — Timothy Leary
The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to the laws of the organization… — Franz Joseph Gall
It's so scary. And then I end up getting so nervous that I get like [I am] now. I get really hyper. [Squeals.] So then… — Jennifer Lawrence
When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not… — Derren Brown
Museums are custodians of epiphanies, and these epiphanies enter the central nervous system and deep recesses of the mind. — George Lois
The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist.… — Louise Bogan
I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone.… — Vaslav Nijinsky
I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of… — Alicia Ostriker
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and… — Sylvia Plath
There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000… — Vanna White
My father was temperamentally nervous and obsessively religious—to the point of psychoneurosis. From him I inherited the seeds of madness. The angels of fear, sorrow,… — Edvard Munch
... I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the… — Unknown Author
Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous — Marilyn Monroe
The secret is, first, get a thoroughbred horse because they are the most nervous animals on earth. Then get the biggest gun you can find… — Jesse Owens
I'm always nervous. If I wasn't nervous, it would be weird. I get the same feeling at all the big races. It's part of the… — Allyson Felix

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