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Quotes About Nervousness

the Republic of Texas is nervous. They fought Gilead to a standstill, but they don't want to be invaded. They're avoiding provocations.
~ Margaret Atwood
Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.
~ John Kasich
I panic every time I put out a record. I think every artist does.
~ Madonna Ciccone
Fasting gives your body time to heal itself. It relieves nervousness and tension and gives your digestive system a rest.
~ Jentezen Franklin
His face was pale and there was a sheen of sweat on it, and his hands were rigid in his lap. If she had touched him she would have felt locked muscles.
~ Anne Perry
Hello, Hal," she said. He took a deep breath. "Lotte. How are you?" he said, trying to make sure his voice didn't crack. His throat felt dry all of a sudden.
~ John Flanagan
Napredek in ?udovito obdobje besne?ega razvoja sta po njegovem ustvarila generacijo duševnih pohabljencev, ki bi bila potrebna nege v zdraviliš?ih. Prinesla sta s seboj množi?no živ?nost, množi?no histerijo, množi?ni dolg?as in množi?no smrt.
~ John Knittel
On place-kicker Pete Rajecki having a bad camp with the Bucs because McKay made him nervous: ``I don't think he's got much of a future here, because I plan on going to all the games.
~ John McKay
The anxiety was bad. The sense of all the ways things could go wrong loomed intensely over me, congealed in a breathless knot behind my sternum. And I kept coming up with new ones.
~ Elizabeth Bear
The belt slid down her thin hips, and she nervously gripped at it, pulling it up. Short sleeves showed her very thin arms and big delicate elbow joints. Her body was all concave and jerkily fluid lines; it moved with sensitive looseness, loosely threaded together: each movement had a touch of exaggeration , as though some secret power kept springing out.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
Folks don't fall from laughter to fear in that way when they're nervously strong, and nerves take their toll of the body in the end.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I felt terrible, I have always been frightened of doing something wrong, of being inconsiderate; it is a real fear I have.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Why are you looking at me like that?" I'm counting your freckles. I've wanted to since I first laid eyes on you," he whispered, so close now that she could hardly breathe. She smiled to hide how nervous it made her. "I take it you have a lot of time to kill?
~ B.J. Daniels
That's a curious paradox that I don't think a lot of people out there know; that you get really scared before you go on. You come out in a nervous rash, and it's not like you actually love getting up there and showing off.
~ Jacqueline McKenzie
I always have to poop right before I do a concert. I don't feel nervous, but I think that must be my body reacting.
~ Lil Dicky
There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.
~ John Starks
If I've done a gig and at the end there are people waiting for autographs, they always seem nervous, but they probably don't realise that I'm more nervous than them. I get very embarrassed.
~ Amy Macdonald
It's quite hard sometimes coming into a show where everybody's quite cliquey, where everybody's been set for a number of years and you're the guest star. It's quite difficult, it's nervewracking in a way.
~ Martin Kemp
My most annoying habit is laughing all the time. I can't stop giggling. I do it because I'm nervous.
~ Kelly Brook
After I had my drink with them and said good night to James Baldwin and was kissed by Simone Signoret on both cheeks, I went outside, walked close to my car, and threw up on the street. It wasn't about the food. I may act brave and sometimes outrageous—on screen—but in real life I get terribly nervous when I meet the great talents whom I've admired for years from afar.
~ Gene Wilder
Changes in fashion reflects the dullness of nervous impulses: the more nervous the age, the more rapidly its fashions change, simply because the desire for differentiation, one of the most important elements of all fashion, goes hand in hand with the weakening of nervous energy. This fact in itself is one of the reasons why the real seat of fashion is found among the upper classes.
~ Georg Simmel
Before I won 'American Idol,' I'd never been in a professional studio at all. I'm getting more used to it. I'm really weird, though: I sing way better in a crowd of 3,000. It's easier than singing in front of 2.
~ Candice Glover
I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
~ Amitabh Bachchan
To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.
~ Alex Karpovsky