High Strung Quotes

• I'm not really high-strung now, but I was a very high-strung child.

  Hope Davis

  Children

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

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• Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Norman Vincent Peale (1952). “Norman Vincent Peale: The Power of Positive Thinking; The Positive Principle Today; Enthusiasm Makes the Differences”, Wings

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• The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

  Florence King

  Stress, Simple, Orchids

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• I'm not like Woody Allen like, "Oh my god what's going to happen? Ooh Ooh Oohhh." I'm just high-strung. So I do need to do a lot of stuff.

  Jen Kirkman

  Needs, Stuff, Woody

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not anxious, I'm high-strung. I just decided that's the difference for me.

  Jen Kirkman

  Differences, Anxious, Decided

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm wired to be neurotic and loud and high-strung.

  Jen Kirkman

  Loud, Neurotic

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

  Jay Leno

  Dog, Nervous, Tick

  Jay Leno (2007). “Jay Leno's How to Be the Funniest Kid in the Whole Wide World (or Just in Your”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Healing, Color, Purple

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• I have never tried [cocaine] in my entire life. I've never even seen it. ... I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode.

  Brittany Murphy

  Heart, Thinking, Way

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• A tall blonde entered the room, wearing a yellow sash that marked her as advocate. Two men followed her, carrying papers. She was lean and long-legged, with a graceful neck and nice ankles, and William took a minute to watch her come down the aisle. She looked high-strung and difficult. Still, good legs. Mmm, smelled of mimosa, too. Expensive scent. Cerise smelled better, when clean.

  Ilona Andrews

  Nice, Men, Two

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• The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Personality, Historical

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• If I spread myself too thin, I'm not a good actor, I'm not a good mother, and I'm just really high-strung - and everybody hates me.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Hate, Actors

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

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• What I absolutely can't do is just sit around, that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I'm far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It's not my thing; I can't deal with it!

  Jonathan Davis

  Crazy, Nuts, Nervous

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