Nerves Quotes - Page 20

• If a person remains tense for a long time he might not notice it himself, but it’s like his nerves are a piece of rubber that has been stretched out. It’s hard to go back to the original shape.

  Haruki Murakami

  Long, Pieces, Shapes

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• He thinks he's happy but it's just a nerve cell in his brain that's getting too much stimulation or too little stimulation.

  Don DeLillo

  Thinking, Cells, Brain

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.202, Pan Macmillan

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• and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

  Taylor Swift

  Dreamer, Stories, Littles

  Song: Cold as You, Album: Taylor Swift, 2006

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• It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Scary, Sometimes, Like Me

  MaryJanice Davidson (2006). “Undead and Unpopular: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.70, Penguin

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• It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

  H. G. Wells

  Voice, Suffering, Pity

  H. G. Wells (2016). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.46, H. G. Wells

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• Grace (talking about Sam): At the sight of him, my stomach slid down to my feet, a weird combination of relief, nerves, and anticipation all in one, a feeling that never seemed to go away.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Sight, Talking, Feet

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.65, Scholastic Inc.

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• Do you know what you’ve done?” I asked in a bland tone. Annette gave me an inquiring look. “You’ve gotten on my last nerve.” The table went crashing into her before she could blink, and then my fist found a home in her perfectly arranged hair.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Home, Hair, Looks

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• What the really great artists do is they're entirely themselves. They're entirely themselves. They've got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it's authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.

  David Foster Wallace

  Reality, Artist, Vision

  "The Charlie Rose Show", March 27, 1997.

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• I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence for months. The thing to say to such people is: "See how *bad* a story you can write. See how dull you can be. Go ahead. That would be fun and interesting. I will give you ten dollars if you can write something thoroughly dull from beginning to end!" And of course, no one can.

  Brenda Ueland

  Fun, Writing, People

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• Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.

  R.J. Ellory

  Wall, Loneliness, Drug

  R. J. Ellory (2010). “A Quiet Belief in Angels: A Novel”, p.100, The Overlook Press

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• San: You all right? Virt: I think i crapped myself a little Sam: Just a little? you've got nerves of steel.

  Michael Grant

  Thinking, Steel, Littles

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• I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.

  May Sarton

  Past, Space, Soul

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.

  Madeline Miller

  Hurt, Air, Worry

  Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Yesterday I went home with him and we did the usual things. I haven't the nerve to put them down, but I'd like to, because now when I'm writing it's already tomorrow and I'm afraid of getting to the end of yesterday. As long as I go on writing, yesterday is today and we are still together

  Graham Greene

  Home, Writing, Yesterday

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• If you ever leave me again,’ she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,’ Percy said. ‘I missed you, too.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Laughing, Annabeth

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• One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

  Iain Banks

  Regret, Excess, Should

  Iain M. Banks (2012). “The Hydrogen Sonata: A Culture Novel”, p.230, Hachette UK

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• For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Strong, Hurt, Knights

  Carolyn Parkhurst (2008). “Lost and Found: A Novel”, Little, Brown

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• If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving Up, Memories, Brain

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• You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

  Agatha Christie

  Rose, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Pain, Selfish, Women

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• Love's scary, and sometimes it's transient. But it's worth the risks and the nerves. It's even worth the pain.

  Nora Roberts

  Pain, Scary, Risk

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' Bride Quartet”, p.129, Penguin

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• A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

  Rick Riordan

  Hero, Long, Challenges

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Titan's curse”

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• We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Immortality

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• Interesting choice," Sullivan said. He slid his gaze over to Paul, who was drumming his fingers on the table in a manic, caffeine-inspired way and blinking a lot. Paul wasn't out-and-out singing along with the king of the dead, but he might as well have put out a big neon sign saying "How's My Driving? Ask Me About My Nerves: 1-800-WIG-N-OUT." --James

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kings, Interesting, Choices

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• I could hear her babbling away beside me, but I wasn't really paying attention. I could barely focus on anything. My nerve endings seemed to have come alive; they almost jangled with anticipation I was going to see Will. Whatever else, I had that. I could almost feel the miles between us shrinking, as if we were at two ends of some invisible elastic thread.

  Jojo Moyes

  Two, Focus, Shrinking

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