Racking Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It… — W. Somerset Maugham
It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you… — Naomi Watts
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was… — Hailee Steinfeld
I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge. — Jane Wiedlin
It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result… — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part… — Jon Hamm
I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me. — Eva Braun
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to… — Charles Churchill
Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it. — Itzhak Perlman
And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what… — Arthur Bryant
I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking. — Audrina Patridge
Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical… — Jonah Goldberg
A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance… — Lydia Ko
Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of… — William John Locke
I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit… — Cindy Margolis
I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and… — Craig Ferguson
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? — William Law
The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time. — Shania Twain
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and… — Edna Ferber
The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where… — Suzanne Collins

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