Nerves Quotes - Page 35

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

  Robert Redford

  Race, People, Saws

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• 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.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Blood, Sound

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• You get steely nerves playing poker.

  Nate Silver

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• I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

  Tori Spelling

  Irrational Fear, Bundles, Irrational

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

  Shania Twain

  Spotlight, Littles, Red

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

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

  Steven Tyler

  Toes, Operations

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• The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions.

  Max Weber

  Men, Hands, Everyday Routine

  Max Weber (2009). “From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology”, p.115, Routledge

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• I'm tired of liberals dividing this country up into little groups, setting them upon each other, breeding spite and envy, and then having the nerve to accuse conservatives of hatred.

  Allen West

  Country, Tired, Envy

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• Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.

  James Wolcott

  Fence Post, Envelopes, Skinny

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• Driving a stock car does not require much handling ability, at least not as compared to Grand Prix racing, because the tracks are simple banked ovals and there is almost no shifting of gears. So, qualifying becomes a test of raw nerve - of how fast a man is willing to take a curve.

  Tom Wolfe

  Simple, Men, Curves

  Tom Wolfe (2009). “The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby”, p.147, Macmillan

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• The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

  Kenny Wormald

  Bullying, Issues, People

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• Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Games, Four, Lasts

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• I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.

  Philip Pullman

  Truth, Lying, Done

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The Amber Spyglass”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Heart, Wind

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Orlando”, p.149, Booklassic

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• Don’t touch me. It makes my skin crawl. (Grace) Grace! I can’t believe you– (Selena) At least she didn’t spit in my face with her dying breath. (Julian) They shoot, they score. A direct hit straight through the heart and into the raw nerves. (Selena)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Heart, Grace

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• 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!

  Rick Riordan

  Fun, Forever, Kites

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• When you've got a date on your calendar saying that you will be putting this in front of people in four weeks, that will get your nerves good, yeah.

  Ewan McGregor

  People, Calendars, Four

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Once you stop drinking and smoking and stuff, it really gets on your nerves, all that nonsense going on.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Drinking, Smoking, Stuff

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.

  T. S. Eliot

  Night, Thinking, Speak

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.56, Faber & Faber

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• I could not bear the deep freeze settling around my bones at the thought that yet another attempt to get out of my life alive would end in disappointment. Time became palpable and viscous. Every minute, every second, every nanosecond, wrapped around my spine so that my nerves tightened and ached. I faded into abstraction. A self-generated narcosis created a painful blank where my mind used to be.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Disappointment, Self, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Writing, Character

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall.

  H. G. Wells

  Fear, Wall, Pain

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Island of Dr. Moreau”, p.36, Booklassic

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• Funny as hell, searingly honest, and urgently real, Sam Pink's Rontel puts to shame most modern fiction. His writing perfectly captures the bizarre parade that is Chicago, with all its gloriously odd and wonderful people. This book possesses both the nerve of Nelson Algren and the existential comedy of Albert Camus.

  Joe Meno

  Real, Book, Writing

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• We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.

  Murray Bookchin

  Spring, Ocean, Journey

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• Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Sleep, Night

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