Quotes and Sayings About Nervous
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In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
-- Al AlvarezSource : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.40, Bloomsbury Publishing
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There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
-- Alain de Botton -
I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.
-- Alan Rickman -
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You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.
-- Alexa Von Tobel -
A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
I was nervous. I mean, I'd met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalà . This was like my history.
-- Alice Cooper -
A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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When I'm nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.
-- Amy Winehouse -
I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
-- Andrew Denton -
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
-- Andy Gibb -
I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.
-- Andy Murray -
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I'm not a very good lover. I'm so nervous about my sexuality.
-- Anna Faris -
There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.
-- Anna Wintour -
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
-- Art Buchwald -
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
-- Arthur Koestler -
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I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.
-- Ashley Madekwe -
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.
-- Bengie Molina -
I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.
-- Bernhard Langer -
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I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.
-- Billy Bob Thornton -
God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.
-- Bob Goff -
When a performer doesn't get nervous, that is when you have to give up.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
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I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.
-- Busy Philipps -
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
-- Carl Rogers -
Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.
-- Cat Zingano -
You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!
-- Catherine Deneuve -
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Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous
-- Charles Clarke -
Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington