My Nerves Quotes

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

Nerves, stress and the pressure to perform are a part of life. You don't have to conquer these feelings; just learn to live with them.

I don't like money very much, but it calms my nerves.

Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.

Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict between a stimulus and the whole individual.

The reason fat people are happy is that the nerves are well protected.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

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

Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here ... and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.

There is a man, playing a violin, and the strings are the nerves in his own arm.

The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Festivals are weird, you never know what to expect so it's a bit more nerve wracking then playing your own show.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

The nerves are good... they keep you on point and they keep you not getting overconfident.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

Forgive me. I can no longer live with my nerves.

That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there.

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

I find doing speeches nerve wrecking.

Here is the thing about Donald Trump. Donald Trump is hitting a nerve in this country.

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.

Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them

Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

Your family, even though you love them, they can get on your nerves. You spend so much time together.

If your Nerve, deny you - Go above your Nerve

Women are terrified of being raped, but somewhere in the back of the womb there is one rebellious nerve end that tingles with curiosity whenever the word is mentioned.

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.