Nerves Quotes

It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves

Everybody just gets on my nerves after like, 10 minutes, you know.

I had a lot of nerves for a long time about career-oriented things, and I've slowly sort of let myself relax into it a bit.

I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves.

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy.

San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel.

You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.

You always have nerves. And it's important to respect your nerves and your doubts. And then you have to ultimately overcome them.

The nerves are good because that keeps you from relaxing too much and getting caught off guard.

I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.

Pure memory isn't based on recall but rather involuntary memory that's in your body and your nerves.

You get steely nerves playing poker.

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

Crazy to think that we're having surgery, we're trying to excise cancer, we don't know where the cancer is. We're trying to preserve nerves; we can't see where they are.

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

In most cases, when the lion, weary of obeying its master, has torn and devoured him, its nerves are pacified and it looks round for another master before whom to grovel.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets too.

The programs constantly repeat themselves and one another. No one has yet had the nerve to say, 'As we have nothing sensible to tell you between now and 8:30, please tune in again then.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

Let brisker youths their active nerves prepare Fit their light silken wings and skim the buxom air.

Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving.

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!

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.

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

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

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

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

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

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

I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.

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.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'

With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

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

When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.

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

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

I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.