Quotes About Nerves

There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality—there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

He was, after all, like other high officials. I wondered why I thought he would be different. These men, who depended on the President's favour for everything, were bundles of nerves. The great power they excercised went with a constant fear of being destroyed.

Nerves," Mik told Karou. "Bad?" "Terrible." Stepping up behind Zuzana, he bent down to enfold her in a spoon-hug. "Ferociously, dreadfully awful. She's unbearable. You take her. I've had enough." Zuzana batted at him, then squealed as he buried his face in the curve of her throat and made exaggerated kissing noises.

It thrilled through her like her nerves were channeling starlight. He was safe.

We cooks have the highest intelligence, and we have opinions about everything. Why? Because the qualities we have come to know as 'taste' and 'a deft hand in the kitchen' are essentially courage, and that is the prerequisite to alchemy: a set of nerves so steely and seasoned, which always know how much garlic, how many chilis, how much salt and pepper to put into each dish, at any second, in any situation, in any city, for every mouth, for every type of hunger.

Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced, the imagination is agreeably stirred, the wits become more nimble. A bottle produces a contrary effect. Excess causes a comatose insensibility. So it is with war, and the quality of both is best discovered by sipping.

There are nearly forty-six miles of nerves in the human body, and fibromyalgia, you get on every single inch of them.

He studied the nail-formation, and prodded the finger-tips, now sharply, and again softly, gauging the nerve-sensations produced. It fascinated him, and he grew suddenly fond of this subtle flesh of his that worked so beautifully and smoothly and delicately. Then he would cast a glance of fear at the wolf-circle drawn expectantly about him, and like a blow the realization would strike him that this wonderful body of his, this living flesh, was no more than so much meat...

My first U.S. Open main draw, it was a big stadium and I wasn't really used to it.

How well a team executes its plans is important, but I think keeping nerves under pressure is far more important in the knockout stage.

Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?.

learn to draw quick and shoot straight, — the former being even more important than the latter,—and probably has to take life after life in order to save his own. Some of these men are brave only because of their confidence in their own skill and strength ; once convince them that they are overmatched and they turn into abject cowards. Others have nerves of

Lectins enter our our joints, our nerve junctions, the lining of our blood vessels and our brain where they incite inflammation and autoimmune diseases.

Moscow is a big city. It's all nerves - something's always happening somewhere. D.C. is a quiet, calm family town.

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

I'm really lucky that I can control my nerves; it doesn't seem to get to me.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

I always played on my nerves - on the edge.

I don't know, I think everybody deals with nerves and adrenaline a little bit differently.

I love listening to music in general before I compete. It's something that calms me down, and meditating and breathing before I get up there to calm all my nerves.

There's a lot of nerves, a lot of excitement, a little bit of sadness leaving the chapter in Columbus.