Nerves Quotes - Page 16

• our nerve filaments twitch with its presence
  day and night,
  nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying,
  nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness,
  the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

  Denise Levertov

  War, Night, Saying Nothing

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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• The art of manipulating public opinion, which is a necessary art for the democratic politician, and, like other arts, is sometimespractised with greater virtuosity by knaves than by honest men (who are apt to disdain it), has a different technique in different countries. For instance, in England we excel in whitewashing: in America they excel in tarring and feathering. We strain our nerves and stretch our consciences to avoid a scandal: Americans do the same to make one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Art, Men

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• Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Moving, Men, Effort

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• Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting.

  Yoko Ono

  Awards, People, Interesting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's much more painful to bomb in front of a group of yours peers than it is to not win. Tons of assholes ain't winning awards, but only one guy will be bombing. So, that's much more nerve-wracking.

  Seth Rogen

  Winning, Awards, Guy

  "Seth Rogen Talks Hosting the 2012 Spirit Awards, THE APOCALYPSE, PINEAPPLE EXPRESS 2, His Favorite Films of the Year, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 15, 2012.

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• For us necessity is not as of old an image without us, with whom we can do warfare; it is a magic web woven through and through us, like that magnetic system of which modern science speaks, penetrating us with a network subtler than our subtlest nerves, yet bearing in it the central forces of the world.

  Walter Pater

  Magic, Woven, Warfare

  Walter Pater (1873). “Studies in the History of the Renaissance”, p.205

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• The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Work, Heart, Night

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• When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

  Vimala Thakar

  Knowing Who You Are, Relaxation, Quality

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• I suppose each project is a new thing, so there's all this excitement and nerves about this new thing. Every single thing is like a new thing, so it's never what I expect. I don't know what to expect for the next thing. There are always different people. It's interesting.

  Agyness Deyn

  People, Interesting, Different

  "Agyness Deyn Talks PUSHER, the Intense Shoot, and the Transition from Modeling to Acting". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 26, 2012.

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• Whenever actors tout off about doing their own stunts, it's always ... they're so protective of you that I always know these stunt guys are so good [and] they're never going to put you in danger. But it's fun to do something kind of exciting, even something as simple as driving 70 through a tunnel with five motorcycles ... it sounds simple, but it's actually really nerve-wracking.

  Ethan Hawke

  Fun, Simple, Tunnels

  "Ethan Hawke Talks GETAWAY, Practical Stuntwork, His Reaction to BEFORE MIDNIGHT’s Reception, Sci-Fi after GATTACA, CYMBELINE & More Upcoming Projects". Interview with Dave Trumbore, collider.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.

  Nick Lowe

  Thinking, Later In Life, People

  Source: www.gq.com

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• With ruin staring you in the face, there is nothing worse to live through than a siege of waiting and hoping. If you manage to live through it, nothing can ever jar your nerves after that.

  Sue Sanders

  Business, Failure, Waiting

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• Obama is looking good because he kept his nerve and retained his restraint. That's a tough combo: nerve and restraint. It takes a cold-bloodedness to pull this off, and there are times when ice seems to run through the man's veins.

  Andrew Sullivan

  Running, Men, Ice

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• If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.

  Geraldine Chaplin

  Typical, Steel, Normal

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• Don't think of yourself as an intestinal tract and tangle of nerves in the skull, that will not work unless you drink coffee. Think of yourself as incandescent power, illuminated perhaps and forever talked to by God and his messengers.... Think if Tiffany's made a mosquito, how wonderful we would think it was!

  Brenda Ueland

  Coffee, Thinking, Skulls

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Nature, Heart, Self

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Advice to a new writer: There are no rules in this profession. Do what is good for you. Read books and watch films that stimulate your writing. In your writing, go where the pain is; go where the pleasure is; go where the excitement is. Believe in your own original approach, voice, characters, story. Ignore critics. Have nerve. Be stubborn.

  Anne Rice

  Pain, Book, Believe

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Aug 22, 2014

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• The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

  Steven Levenkron

  Pain, Mean, Self

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• Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one is left with dreams that these specters loose their hands from ours and walk away, the curve of the back and the swing of the coat so familiar as to imply that they should be permanent fixtures of the world, when in fact nothing is more perishable.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Dream, Fall, Eye

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.116, Macmillan

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• If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Hurt, Art, Writing

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.49, Penguin

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• Augusta National is a young man's golf course, and you really need a young man's nerves to play on it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Men, Play

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• We live longer than our forefathers; but we suffer more from a thousand artificial anxieties and cares. They fatigued only the muscles, we exhaust the finer strength of the nerves

  Edward George, Baron George

  Success, Stress, Anxiety

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Jobs, Fear, Hypocrite

  Cakes and Ale (1930) ch. 1

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• If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.

  Shawn Johnson

  Sports, Gymnastics, Ifs

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• The way is open, comrades, free as Space
  Alone is free. The only gold is love,
  A coin that we have minted from the light
  Of others who have cared for us on Earth
  And who have deposited in us the power
  That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Stars, Light

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