Nerves Quotes - Page 5

• You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.

  Eliot Ness

  Thinking, Faces, Familiar

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• I couldn’t sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sleep, Years, Two

  Interview with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Motivational, Basketball, Playing Games

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• Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

  Ivan Pavlov

  Adrenal Glands, Lasts, Pancreas

  Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1957). “Experimental psychology, and other essays”

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• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  David A. Embury

  Eye, Tired, Ice

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

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Scary, Sometimes, Like Me

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Hair, White, Political

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• I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.

  Noel Gallagher

  Two, Feet, People

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• Being on a comedy tour is like traveling with family, everyone is all having a great time... then all of a sudden it turns sour. One thing gets said out of turn, and everyone is on everyone's last nerve. After an hour of silence, we all start laughing about it.

  Steve Harvey

  Laughing, Silence, Lasts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

  Taylor Swift

  Dreamer, Stories, Littles

  Song: Cold as You, Album: Taylor Swift, 2006

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• He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Cells, Brain

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• when you [lose someone], it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all nerves are still a little raw

  Jodi Picoult

  Fall, Empty Places, Teeth

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• Brenna’s eyes widened. Raising a hand, she brushed his hair gently off his forehead. “Why do I keep telling you things I swore I’d take to my grave?” The contact shot electricity through his nerves. “Because you know I’ll always be your shield against the nightmares.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Hair, Hands

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.867, Penguin

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• Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Responsibility, Imagination, Feelings

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• I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves.

  Antonin Artaud

  Believe, Heart, Untrustworthy

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• I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

  Yann Martel

  Pain, Heart, Body

  Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.108, Vintage Canada

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

  Nora Roberts

  Pain, Scary, Risk

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.129, Penguin

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• You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice, provided only if it is honest. Your ideal is a daring courtesan of genius. Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Men, Imagination, Way

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.49, Cosimo Classics

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• Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

  Jane Austen

  Compassion, Tears, Pieces

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

  May Sarton

  Past, Space, Soul

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.

  R.J. Ellory

  Wall, Loneliness, Drug

  R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.100, The Overlook Press

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• I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.

  Brenda Ueland

  Fun, Writing, People

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• What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reality, Artist, Vision

  "The Charlie Rose Show", March 27, 1997.

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• Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in her perfectly arranged hair.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Home, Hair, Looks

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