Nerves Quotes

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

In the case of the stomach, however, the nerves of the glandular cells were always severed when constructing an artificially isolated pouch and this, naturally, affected the normal work of the stomach.

Netanyahu is pressured easily, gets into a panic, and loses his senses... to run a country like Israel a leader needs to have reason and judgment and nerves of steel, two traits he does not have.

Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

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

I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.