Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bosh

I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.

Charlotte Bronte

No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.

Amy Heckerling

I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.

Edna Ferber

Emma McChesney was engaged in that nerve-wracking process known as getting things out of the way. When Emma McChesney aimed to get things out of the way she did not use a shovel; she used a road-drag.

Perhaps nerves or the pressure could get to them and we could nick something.

It was uncharacteristic of us. Today we did not make the plays we normally do. It could've been nerves or a number of things.

We are taking samples to our testing facilities. Subsequent tests have indicated it's not a nerve agent.

Bella Heathcote

I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Alexander Payne

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Delia Smith

If I was a Mayor, I would sort the traffic out and that includes public transport. The traffic jams really get on my nerves.

Daniel D. Palmer

Pressure on nerves causes irriatation and tension with deranged functions as a result. Why not release the pressure? Why not adjust the cause instead of treating the effects? Why not?

Renee Fleming

A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves.

Storm Jameson

What I do not know and cannot even hope to understand before I die is why human beings are willfully, coldly, matter-of-factly cruel to each other ... What nerve has atrophied in the torturer, or worse is sensually moved?

Stephen Rea

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you.

Spiro T. Agnew

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

Stefan Zweig

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

Steven Weber

I tend to be very relaxed on stage, but the nerves have to come out somehow.

Megan Fox

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Francis Collins

The airman must possess absolutely untroubled nerves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

Eric Clapton

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

Guy Ritchie

The most nervous I've ever been was on a 250 pound music video which is the first thing I ever did. And I stepped on there with a directing partner, so I could blame him when everything went tits up. But since then my nerves have incrementally decreased so I'm not plagued by the same sense of nerves as I used to be.

Ginger Rogers

I've got enough nerve to do anything!

Mark Lowe

My nerves are still frazzled. I can't talk without stuttering, muttering and mumbling.

Johnny Depp

I wasn't obnoxious or precocious but I was curious. There were a lot of practical jokes. I got on her nerves basically. I pissed her off quite frequently.

Byron Nelson

Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.

Frank O'Hara

You just go on your nerve.

James Galway

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Idina Menzel

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

Ivan Pavlov

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.

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.