Books Quote by Herbert Gold

Writers brought up in Africa have many advantages - being at the center of a modern battlefield; part of a society in rapid, dramatic…

— Doris Lessing

My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we…

— Sandra Cisneros

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

— Viswanathan Anand

Every word we speak calls on 37 muscles and thousands of nerves. It's not surprising that sometimes these nerves and muscles fail us.

— Kate Forsyth

I wasn't born with nerves. You have to take yourself out of the equation and think about everyone else - you're the entertainer.

— Gabby Barrett

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves,…

— Yann Martel

The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops…

— Richard Dawkins

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the…

— James Dickey

Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take…

— John Cleese

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…

— Sylvia Plath

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Somebody's going to hear a song that will key in a nerve or something in their experience that represents their own vision. And the…

— Van Morrison

Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another's ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense…

— Dan Beachy-Quick

The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has…

— George Henry Borrow

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

— Charles Lamb