Nerves Quotes - Page 13

• Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.

  Dick Cavett

  Stars, People, Brain

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.154, Henry Holt and Company

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• New York is too strenuous for me; it gets on my nerves.

  Ambrose Bierce

  New York

  Ambrose Bierce (1967). “Letters”

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• I'll try and get through as much as my voice and nerves and knees will let me.

  Sally Hawkins

  Voice, Trying, Knees

  "Ledger Wins Posthumous Golden Globe for 'The Dark Knight'" by The Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2009.

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• Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

  Jimmy Connors

  Winning, Player, Thinking

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• I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

  Eddie Marsan

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  "Eddie Marsan: 'I Don't Have a Great Need to Be Liked by an Audience'". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2011.

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• As some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility.

  Charles Darwin

  Light, Special, Doe

  Charles Darwin (1875). “On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.144

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• We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

  Charles Lamb

  Vision, Tragedy, Rays

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.298

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• I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, People, Littles

  Source: collider.com

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• Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

  Tahir Shah

  Iron, People, Hardship

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• As blue chips turn into penny stocks, Wall Street seems less like a symbol of America's macho capitalism and more like that famous Jane Austen character Mrs. Bennet, a flibbertigibbet always anxious about getting richer and her 'poor nerves.'

  Maureen Dowd

  Wall, Character, Blue

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

  Steven Weber

  Stage, Relaxed

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

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• I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

  Muriel Wace

  Children, Thinking, Civilization

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• The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of an almost punitive nature, as though the act of writing race was somehow morally suspect, is a dangerous one. This approach appears culturally sensitive, but often it reveals a failure of nerve. I believe the demand that we ought to reveals a species of fascism within the left - an embrace of political correctness with its required silences, which has left people afraid to offend or take a stand.

  C.E. Morgan

  Believe, Writing, Character

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasnt able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

  Constance Marie

  Drama, School, Able

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• What man dare, I dare.
  Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
  The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;
  Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
  Shall never tremble.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Shapes, Bears

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 99

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• I've noticed that, while I can't help but respect and sort of envy the moral nerve of people who truly do not care what others think of them, people like this also make me nervous, and I tend to do my admiring from a safe distance.

  David Foster

  Distance, Thinking, People

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• Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

  Idina Menzel

  Alive, Overconfident

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• I always felt a love for music, but I never got my nerve up enough to try a musical instrument in school.

  Don Cornelius

  School, Musical, Trying

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• You see an artist, a creative person, can accept criticism or can live with the criticism much more easily than with being ignored. Criticism makes you feel alive. If somebody is bothered enough to speak vituperatively about it, you feel you have touched a nerve and you are at least 'in touch.' You are not happy that he doesn't like it, but you feel you are in contact with life.

  Saul Bass

  Artist, Creative, Being Ignored

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• Human sacrifice is much in vogue right now. The Republican right thinks that people who get on its nerves, especially women, should be sent to the stake. . .

  Mary McGrory

  Sacrifice, Thinking, People

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• It's a good time for me, but it's only recently I've become comfortable in my job. At the start, it's hard having the nerve to call yourself an actor, let alone doing it. I gave myself two years after drama school, and if I didn't make it, then I'd give it up.

  Ruth Wilson

  Jobs, Drama, School

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

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• The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve.

  Marcia Angell

  Drug, Likes, Research

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• Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Brain, Growth

  "Place Mushrooms in Sunlight to Get Your Vitamin D: Part One" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2012.

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• It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!

  Christopher

  Makeup, Thinking, Too Much

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• I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

  Vijender Singh

  Yoga, Meditation, Energy

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