Nervous Quotes - Page 40

• Passion's a good, stupid horse that will pull the plough six days a week if you give him the run of his heels on Sundays. But love's a nervous, awkward, over-mastering brute; if you can't rein him, it's best to have no truck with him.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Running, Horse, Stupid

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Gaudy Night”, p.513, Open Road Media

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• If you write what you know about, you will always be on safe ground. I am very edgy and nervous about going into territories I know nothing about. That's why you don't find much high finance, group sex, or yachting parties in my stories.

  Maeve Binchy

  Sex, Party, Writing

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• Talking's just a nervous habit.

  Martha Grimes

  Talking, Habit

  Martha Grimes (2013). “The Deer Leap”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• A tendency to resume the same mode of action at stated times is peculiarly the characteristic of the nervous system; and on this account regularity is of great consequence in exercising the moral and intellectual power. All nervous diseases have a marked tendency to observe regular periods; and the natural inclination to sleep at the approach of night is another instance of the same fact.

  George Combe

  Sleep, Exercise, Night

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• I have been styling my own hair since I was four years old ... and I still don't let anyone else touch it to this day. I cut, color, style, and spray my own hair, on all sets and shoots, that's just the way it goes. I get way too nervous when someone else starts to mess with it.

  Jenna Elfman

  Cutting, Hair, Color

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• You can't control things by being nervous.

  Tina Fey

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• To be polite to everybody except the people they love most is a nervous affectation that afflicts many families ... when they come home, they take off their smiles and soft words, and sit about, spiritually in their underwear. This isn't pretty.

  Margaret Fishback

  Family, Home, People

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• All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

  Patrick Swift

  Art, Character, Erotic

  "Some Notes on Caravaggio". "Nimbus" Magazine, 1956.

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• the African leopard is an audacious animal, although it is ungrateful of me to say a word against him, after the way he has let me off personally ... taken as a whole, he is the most lovely animal I have ever seen; only seeing him, in the one way you can gain a full idea of his beauty, namely in his native forest, is not an unmixed joy to a person, like myself, of a nervous disposition.

  Mary Kingsley

  Taken, Animal, Ideas

  Mary Kingsley (2010). “Travels in West Africa, Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons”, p.543, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm always nervous about it. You know, somehow, without even knowing it, I try and recreate the idea of what it feels like to go in front of an audience every night when I'm making a film. And that similar type of pressure and excitement before a scene, or preparing for a movie, so...

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Night, Ideas, Knowing

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: "Way Beyond His Years as a Human"". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• ... I think we should never underestimate the power of women's threats. If you have ever faced an angry group of women, you know that it makes one very nervous. How can we get groups of women to act in such ways as to make corporations nervous? I should like us to use this method sparingly; but it can be used.

  Juanita M. Kreps

  Thinking, Groups, Use

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• Being nervous is a waste of time.

  Lindsey Wixson

  Waste, Wasting Time

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• I'm always just very nervous. I never feel like, 'I've got this'. I'm always very nervous and aware of how quickly people can hate you and that scares me. I never feel like I'm on top of it or I know what I'm doing... so, no. I never get a big head, I just get more and more anxious.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Hate, People, Scare

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• Every nervous system creates its own "reality," minute by minute - we live inside a "bubble" of neural abstractions which we identify with reality. You can make this neurological fact into conscious experience, and you will never be bored or depressed again.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Reality, Bored, Facts

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• About half an hour before air time - that's when I become hyper. I put everything else out of my mind and just let that nervous energy surge through my body. I start talking faster and louder. My confidence comes up. It's actually a great feeling.

  David Letterman

  Air, Talking, Feelings

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• I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

  Margaret Atwood

  Religious, Political, Dogma

  "Margaret Atwood Ruins a Marriage, Talks Memes, Politics in Reddit AMA". Interview with Jia Tolentino, jezebel.com. December 30, 2014.

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• Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.

  Deepak Chopra

  Children, Simple, Meditation

  "Questions About Meditation You Were Too Embarrassed To Ask, Explained By Deepak Chopra". Interview with Whitney Jefferson, www.buzzfeed.com. August 7, 2014.

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• Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.

  Bob Hope

  Mcdonalds, Buns, Six

  "Bob Hope's Joke Vault Endures", www.foxnews.com. July 28, 2003.

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• I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, ”Lucky”. I actually don’t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!

  Megan Lee

  Dream, Song, Nice

  "Interview with Megan Lee of Make It Pop!". Glitter Magazine Interview, glittermagrocks.com. March 25, 2015.

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• When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

  Katia Winter

  Fun, Hero, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

  Jon Bernthal

  Boxing, Shy, Rigor

  Source: collider.com

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• Financial institutions make us nervous when they're trying to do well.

  Charlie Munger

  Trying, Financial, Institutions

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• Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.

  Sarah Moore Grimke

  Art, Army, Intellectual

  "The Female Experience". Book by Gerda Lerner (Chapter 87), 1977.

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• I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.

  Amy Poehler

  Challenges

  Source: www.elle.com

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• As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there.

  Gucci Mane

  Water Bottles, Everyday, My Birthday

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