Nerves Quotes - Page 10

and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.

I'm so excited that my stomach is in a jiggle-jaggle of nerves. There they go again. Jiggle. Jaggle. I'm a mess.

People like myself say, 'Fix the problem. Put him in the general [prison] population. The moral prisoners will deal with him in a way we don't have the nerve to do.'

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out.

While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music.

In trying to justify the humanities, as in trying to live a life, what may turn out to matter most is holding one's nerve.

Don't get me wrong, I have the utmost respect for anyone who has the nerve to even attempt to do music today, but this is just about what excites me.

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

That's how myths are born. Out of our carelessness, out of our tattered nerves, out of jokes that go wrong and flashy gestures.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

Only enormously talented people could have made Death to Smoochy . Those with lesser gifts would have lacked the nerve to make a film so bad, so miscalculated, so lacking any connection with any possible audience.

I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.

If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.

Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun!