Quotes of: Nerves Keyword

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Gordon Gee

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

Viswanathan Anand

The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half.

Andrew Greeley

Acting can truly take a toll on your nerves. I mean, we have to be larger than life. Worse, I've seen actors acting off the sets, too.

Preity Zinta

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Constance Marie

Working with Kanye is one of the greatest things ever. It's also one of the most nerve-wracking things ever. He's, like, the most critical, particular, artistic person ever.

Big Sean

I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.

Hilarie Burton

When someone stays with you and they're not your guest, even when they are your guest they get on your nerves. When people visit for long periods of time, that just happens.

Sean Durkin

Tom Joad: Takes no nerve to do something, ain't nothin' else you can do.

The Grapes of Wrath

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

Amelie Mauresmo

I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it.

Sandy Duncan

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Vijender Singh

He knew how to handle pain. You had to lie down with pain, not draw back away from it. You let yourself sort of move around the outside edge of pain like with cold water until you finally got up your nerve to take yourself in hand. Then you took a de...

From Here to Eternity

In the life cycle of an intense emotion, if it isn't acted upon, it eventually peaks and then decreases. But as Dr. Linehan explains, people with BPD have a different physiological experience with this process because of three key biological vulnerab...

Kiera Van Gelder

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly. "I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.

Double Clutch

Shock and desire have my nerves tingling like I've been struck by horny lightning.

Falling for the Ghost of You

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

The Great Gatsby

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

The Island of Dr. Moreau

Fuckin' my man in my bed," he said over Gabriel's shoulder. "You got some goddamn nerve, girl.

Shivaree

anger of any kind is a dangerous emotion, it eats at the nerves and eventually makes you careless

The Madness Season

...when the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.

The Lacuna