Nerves Quotes - Page 17

• What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.

  John Updike

  Sports, Lying, Golf

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• Odd to think that the piece of you I know best is already dead. The cells on the surface of your skin are thin and flat without the blood vessels or nerve endings. Dead cells, thickest on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, Cells, Blood

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• Never drink diet soda. It shows you have no nerve. Only drink real colas, caffeine-packed energy drinks, or vitamin water. Hate champagne because that’s what everyone expects you to love. Energy drinks are the best party drinks. You never get tired, you never get a hangover, and you can make fun of all the loaded people who think they’re clever but are really acting stupid.

  Paris Hilton

  Clever, Fun, Hate

  Paris Hilton (2012). “Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-In-Chic Peek Behind the Pose”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• One must read poetry with one's nerves.

  Wallace Stevens

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• Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.

  Virginia Woolf

  Iron, Yellow, Faces

  Virginia Woolf (1984). “The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1936-1941”, Harcourt

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• As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

  Rita Levi-Montalcini

  Science, Expression, Snakes

  "The Saga of the Nerve Growth Factor: Preliminary Studies, Discovery, Further Development".

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• People never fail to amaze me. They face the unimaginable with a shot of grace and a rush of adrenaline; they steel their nerves; they summon their cool or anger or faith or whatever it takes to pull them through, and they go on to live another day.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Adversity, People, Grace

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• There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Winter, Heroism

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.164, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces.

  Jane Austen

  Compassion, Tears, Pieces

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company

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

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Vitality, Myrtle, Body

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.493, e-artnow

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• I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Artistic, Conscience

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• Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Party, Missing, Celery

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (1960). “Six Tales of the Jazz Age and Other Stories”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything all right, Gwyneth?” asked Gideon, raising one eyebrow. “You look nervous. Would you like a cigarette to calm your nerves? What was your favorite brand, did you say? Marlboros?” I could only stare at him speechlessly. “Leave her alone,” said Xemerius. “Can’t you see she’s unhappy in love, bonehead? All because of you! What are you doing here, anyway?

  Kerstin Gier

  Eyebrows, Unhappy, Gideon

  Kerstin Gier (2012). “Sapphire Blue”, p.215, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

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• Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wish, Pants, Kind

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• I am Persephone" she said, her voice thin and papery. "Welcome, demigods. Nico squashed a pomegranate under his boot. "Welcome? After last time, you've got the nerve to welcome me?" I shifted uneasily, because talking that way to a god can get you blasted into dust bunnies. "Um, Nico-" "It's all right," Persephone said coldly. "We had a little family spat." "Family spat?" Nico cried. "You turned me into a dandelion!

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Talking, Voice

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• Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.

  Ben Jonson

  Time, Eye, Mirrors

  1600 Every Man out of His Humour, Induction.

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• You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

  Henry Adams

  Love, Broken Heart, Pain

  Henry Adams (2015). “Democracy: An American Novel!”, p.168, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• Ambulances always come with clouds of smoke. And then they disappear in a whistle. But what they bring is fear. Not freedom. Feardom is what they bring. And they bring fire and smoke. Oh, my nerves are bad tonight, yes, bad. I fear freedom. I, above all, fear the freedom that is above all feardom.

  Giannina Braschi

  Freedom, Fire, Clouds

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

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• For mightier far
  Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway
  Of magic potent over sun and star,
  Is love, though oft to agony distrest,
  And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Life, Stars

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.210, Wordsworth Editions

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• The Dancer believes that his art has something to say which cannot be expressed in words or in any other way than by dancing... there are times when the simple dignity of movement can fulfill the function of a volume of words. There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. This is the dancer's justification for being, and his reason for searching further for deeper aspects of his art.

  Doris Humphrey

  Dance, Art, Believe

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• Each night, Liesel would step outside, wipe the door, and watch the sky. Usually it was like spillage - cold and heavy, slippery and gray - but once in a while some stars had the nerve to rise and float, if only for a few minutes. On those nights, she would stay a little longer and wait. Hello, stars.

  Markus Zusak

  Stars, Night, Doors

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• My hand moves because certain forces--electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be--are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe.

  Lewis Carroll

  Moving, Air, Blood

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain. Projecting from it are millions of fragile sensory nerve fibers, in groups uniquely adapted to sample the energetic states of the world around us: heat, light, force, and chemical composition. That is all we ever know of it directly; all else is logical inference.

  Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle

  Light, Brain, World

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• Among the millions of nerve cells that clothe parts of the brain there runs a thread. It is the thread of time, the thread that has run through each succeeding wakeful hour of the individual.

  Wilder Penfield

  Running, Cells, Brain

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• With its hundred billion nerve cells, with their hundred trillion interconnections, the human brain is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe - always, of course, excepting the interaction of some six billion such brains and their owners within the socio-technological culture of our planetary ecosystem!

  Steven Rose

  Cells, Ecosystems, Brain

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