Nerves Quotes - Page 31

• I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People, Pilots, Normal

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• 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.

  Richard Realf

  Hands, Giving, Silence

  Richard Realf, Richard Josiah Hinton (1898). “Poems”

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• I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.

  Mary Butts

  Feelings, Loathing, Sound

  Mary Butts (1988). “The Crystal Cabinet: My Childhood at Salterns”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Reality, Joy, Luck

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• It's nerve-wracking singing in front of people. I think that's why most people get drunk for karaoke.

  Emily Blunt

  Thinking, People, Drunk

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• Don't hang a dismal picture on the wall, and do not daub with sables and glooms in your conversation. Don't be a cynic and disconsolate preacher. Don't bewail and bemoan. Omit the negative propositions. Nerve us with incessant affirmatives. Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. When that is spoken which has a right to be spoken, the chatter and the criticism will stop. Set down nothing that will not help somebody.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wall, Rejection, Criticism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.104, Penguin

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• I'm useless scrabbling around at home. I get on everyone's nerves, including my own. I'm not very good at amusing myself.

  Laurence Fox

  Home, Useless, Amusing

  "Laurence Fox: 'I knew Billie was the one for me...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. May 2, 2010.

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• I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

  Julia Sawalha

  Insecure, Thinking, Healthy

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• I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Beach, Blow, Thinking

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• Get on the fashion nerves of your peers, not your parents - that is the key to fashion leadership.

  John Waters

  Fashion, Keys, Parent

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.99, Macmillan

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• The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

  Marjorie Benton Cooke

  Being Yourself, Eccentric, Way

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• I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

  Les Dawson

  Teacher, School, Lions

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

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

  George Carlin

  Heart, Iron, Gold

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• It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.

  Yohan Blake

  People, Stadiums

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• Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

  Donny Deutsch

  Personal Life

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• It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Complaining, Disease, Germs

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.

  Alicia Keys

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

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• The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Knowing, Waiting, Pieces

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• It would not be long ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country.

  Samuel Morse

  Country, Land, Long

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• I'm not going to get a hit every time in clutch situations, but over the course of the season I'll get a lot of clutch hits. I'm disappointed it's come to a time when they (Orioles fans) boo me. And then to turn around and have the nerve to cheer for you, that's the way baseball goes.

  Albert Belle

  Baseball, Cheer, Fans

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• The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.

  Vanna Bonta

  Pain, Names, Soul

  "Degrees: Thought Capsules (Poems) and Micro Tales on Life, Death, Man, Woman, & Art". Book by Vanna Bonta, September 1, 1989.

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• Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

  Robin Green

  Father, Cells, Opposites

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Full Upright Position')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, November 07, 1994.

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• The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.

  Winona LaDuke

  Country, Military, Skulls

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• By the way, to perform in front of Don Rickles, it 's not nerve-wrecking. It 's enjoyable, i am enjoying Jeff Garlin. I hope I perform in front of Don Rickles every night of my life !

  Jeff Garlin

  Life, Night, Way

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• I made a joke with my sister... I said, "I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security." There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.

  Juliette Lewis

  Jobs, Opportunity, Two

  "Juliette Lewis Talks THE FIRM and Future Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 11, 2012.

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