My Nerves Quotes
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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.
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.
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 want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.
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.
Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.
Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause.
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.
I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.
This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.
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.
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.
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.
The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.
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.
Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.
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.
I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
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.
It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves
I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
