Nerves Quotes - Page 6

If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

If you start responding to every stimulus, then you end up as a nerve gas case, quite literally. Neurons fire at once.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.

What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble.

Happiness means quiet nerves.

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

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

Senseless is the breast and cold Which relenting love would fold; Bloodless are the veins and chill Which the pulse of pain did fill; Every little living nerve That from bitter words did swerve Round the tortur'd lips and brow, Are like sapless leaflets now Frozen upon December's bough.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.