Fidgeting Quotes

• I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

  Devon Sawa

  Nervous, Get Real, Shows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

  Raymond Carver

  Worry, Anxiety, Legs

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.405, Vintage

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• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Hands, Boredom, Trying

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.130, Penguin

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• Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Dream, Easter

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Teacher, Fun

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• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Believe, Violence

  Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mom, Ideas, Watches

  "The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg Interviewed". Interview with Anna David, www.thedailybeast.com. September 26, 2010.

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• When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.

  John Elder Robison

  Feet, Calming Effect, Long

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• The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

  Thomas Fuller

  Peace, Sheep, Madness

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• I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

  Howard Nemerov

  Funny, Life, Writing

  Interview with Grace Cavalieri, www.gracecavalieri.com. October 1988.

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• Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

  David Byrne

  Love, Common, Cute Love

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• He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

  Stephen King

  Eye, People, Guy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

  Tom Glazer

  College, Should Have, Too Much

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• To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

  Wendell Phillips

  Men, Law, Aggravation

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.305

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Love, Giving Up, Secret

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• In case I forget to tell you later, I had a really good time tonight.

  Julia Roberts

  Pretty Woman, Tonight, Good Times

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• I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.

  Howard Nemerov

  Poetry, Sometimes, Kindergarten

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough. Not only have I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets, but I have found that when I silently commune with people they give up their secrets also – if you love them enough.

  George Washington Carver

  Giving Up, Flower, Love You

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• There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

  Shirley Knight

  Family, Mother, Children

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