Nerve Quotes

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

I wish I had the nerve not to tip.

His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing.

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. I guess if I'm forced to find a good side, I'm glad that people are talking about an issue that hasn't really been discussed all that much. I'm glad that people are talking about it from the black perspective and the white perspective.

It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.