Fidgeting Quotes

• I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

  Devon Sawa

  Nervous, Get Real, Shows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

  Raymond Carver

  Worry, Anxiety, Legs

  Raymond Carver (2015). “Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories”, p.405, Vintage

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• Fidgeting and boredom are the symptoms of fear of emptiness, which we try to fill up with whatever we can lay our hands on.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Hands, Boredom, Trying

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.130, Penguin

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• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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• Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Love, Dream, Easter

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.88, Library of America

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• It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?

  A. A. Milne

  Friendship, Teacher, Fun

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• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Believe, Violence

  Voice of America broadcast, November 11, 1951.

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• Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

  Charles Lamb

  Friendship, Inspiring, Funny Best Friend

  "The Works of Charles Lamb".

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Mom, Ideas, Watches

  "The Social Network's Jesse Eisenberg Interviewed". Interview with Anna David, www.thedailybeast.com. September 26, 2010.

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• When Martha first met me, I was anxious and jumpy. I was always tapping my foot, rocking, or exhibiting some other behavioral aberration. Of course, now we know that's just normal Aspergian behavior, but back then other people thought it was weird, so of course I did, too. One day, for some reason, she decided to try petting my arm, and I immediately stopped rocking and fidgeting. The result was so dramatic, she never stopped. It didn't take long for me to realize the calming effect, too. I like being petted and scratched. "Can you pet me?" I say when I sit next to her.

  John Elder Robison

  Feet, Calming Effect, Long

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• The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Business, Military

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• It is madness for sheep to talk peace with a wolf.

  Thomas Fuller

  Peace, Sheep, Madness

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• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

  Howard Nemerov

  Funny, Life, Writing

  Interview with Grace Cavalieri, www.gracecavalieri.com. October 1988.

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• Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.

  David Byrne

  Love, Common, Cute Love

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• He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

  Stephen King

  Eye, People, Guy

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.637, Simon and Schuster

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• I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Stress, Thinking, People

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• I'm afraid I talk a lot, too much, perhaps. I should have been a lawyer or a college professor or a windy politician, though I'm glad I am not any of these.

  Tom Glazer

  College, Should Have, Too Much

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• Who's a boy gonna talk to if not his mother?

  Donald E. Westlake

  Inspiring, Mothers Day, Mom

  "Fictional character: Roy Dillon". "The Grifters", www.imdb.com. 1990.

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• I could talk food all day. I love good food.

  Tom Brady

  Food, Good Day, Good Food

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

  Bertrand Russell

  Country, Hippie, Patriotic

  Bertrand Russell (1962). “Has Man a Future?”

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• I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

  Tony Robbins

  Positive, Inspiring, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Feb 24, 2015

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• Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Done, Kindergarten

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• I'm very girly. I love to talk about diets, exercise, kids, make-up.

  Rachel Hunter

  Girly, Kids, Exercise

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