Nerves Quotes - Page 7

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer, an almost physical nerve, the kind you need to walk a log across a river.

Alcohol is perfect for me to curb the nerves a little bit.

Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach.

It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.

I've got enough nerve to do anything!

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

The first day working with my father was nerve wracking. I was terrified that I would embarrass him or he would embarrass me and it was probably one of the more tortuous days of my life. After the first day was under our belt, it was a great opportunity and I'll always look back on that experience fondly.

Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces.. .It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

Failure isn't a problem. It's the fear of failure that's the limiting factor. You can't lose your nerve for the big failure, because it's the exact same nerve you need for the big success.