Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wallace Stevens

One must read poetry with one's nerves.

Samuel Goldwyn

What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.

Henry Rollins

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

Mahatma Gandhi

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

Novak Djokovic

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Kobe Bryant

It took away from the nerves a little bit.

Mike Nichols

Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.

Murray Rothbard

Money ... is the nerve center of the economic system. If, therefore, the state is able to gain unquestioned control over the unit of all accounts, the state will then be in a position to dominate the entire economic system, and the whole society.

Nate Silver

You get steely nerves playing poker.

Tang Jiaxuan

handled the incident with calmness and restraint and in accordance with international law and the provisions of relevant laws in China.

Benjamin Agosto

This was only the third time we competed this free dance, but we felt calm and comfortable.

Mark Osiecki

He really took a lot of pressure off of Josh. He's such a calming presence on the whole defensive core.

Scott White

Guys are saying, 'Hey, we're willing to give anything a try. And Coach Willingham is exactly what we needed. He has provided a calming hand.

Jamal Crawford

He's a calming influence for us, a great veteran, a great leader and we're going to miss him.

Bulgarian Proverb

God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.

Al Groh

He's got real focus, but he's always very calm in terms of game circumstances as well as his own personal circumstances. I think he projects that very well, that sense of purpose and focus but calm at the same time to his teammates also.

Dave Tippett

He's just so calm for a rookie. You talk about players getting ready for a game, whether it's taping sticks or fixing their equipment. But he gets his mind ready. He prepares himself, and he's perfectly comfortable in those situations.

Jack Homko

He's just kind of a calming influence over everything. When he wasn't there, we had to move people around.

Mika

I was born out of classical music.

Questlove

Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Birdy

I love Adele and Lykke Li. I also listen to classical music as well.

Dennis Ritchie

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

Alexandra Fuller

I listen mostly to classical music.

Gregory Maguire

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.