Quotes and Sayings About Nerves
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Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.
-- AkonSource : Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. November 12, 2006.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
-- Al AlvarezSource : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.283, Bloomsbury Publishing
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
-- Alan FurstSource : Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House
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I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve
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Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
-- Alan RickmanSource : "Emma Watson attacked for 'exploiting' Alan Rickman's death 'to push her own feminist agenda'" by Helen Pye, www.mirror.co.uk. January 15, 2016.
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Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
-- Alexander Payne -
I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
-- Amelie Mauresmo -
My nerves will come when I have to take off my top.
-- Angel Porrino -
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It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.
-- Anna Pavlova -
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
-- Anne TruittSource : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.184, Simon and Schuster
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I destroy because for me everything that proceeds from reason is untrustworthy. I believe only in the evidence of what stirs my marrow, not in the evidence of what addresses itself to my reason. I have found levels in the realm of the nerve. I now feel capable of evaluating the evidence. There is for me an evidence in the realm of pure flesh which has nothing to do with the evidence of reason. The eternal conflict between reason and the heart is decided in my very flesh, but in my flesh irrigated by nerves...
-- Antonin Artaud -
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 -
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There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.
-- Arnold Bennett -
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
-- Asger JornSource : "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 166), 2002.
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absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
-- Audrey Niffenegger -
I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.
-- Audrina PatridgeSource : Interview with Michael Martin, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.
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I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.
-- Big Boi -
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
-- Bob Dylan -
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.
-- Boris BeckerSource : FaceBook post by Boris Becker from Oct 22, 2013
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They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.
-- Buck Brannaman -
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Putting affects the nerves more than anything. I would actually get nauseated over three-footers.
-- Byron Nelson -
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
-- Charles Bukowski -
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
-- Charles Frazier -
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.
-- Charles Lamb -
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The terminal path may, to distinguish it from internuncial common paths, be called the final common path. The motor nerve to a muscle is a collection of such final common paths.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.
-- Charlie Huston -
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Do not be perturbed with by an ill-bred person; in most cases the one who is unsociable has a liver complaint and bad nerves.
-- Chico Xavier -
I had a turnover and three missed shots down the stretch. I just have to make sure I calm my nerves.
-- Chris Bosh