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Quotes About Nerves

I think our first scene was us arguing, and nobody wants to argue with Angela Bassett, but the thing about it was that all of the nerves I had going into it were immediately kind of quelled as soon as I got to the set. Becasue she's not Angela Bassett, she's just Angela Bassett.
~ Oliver Stark
Every telecast, I still have butterflies and a little bit of nerves. But I think the nerves help. It elevates my attentiveness.
~ Doris Burke
Every time I compete, I still get nervous. There are the nerves that are because 'oh this is really going to hurt,' then there's the, 'I have to go fast and I don't know how fast everyone else is going to go,' nerves.
~ Rich Froning Jr.
I like to carry some nerves with me for each fight.
~ Keith Thurman
I've always had a thing for playing in front of people, and the nerves never really creep in too much for some reason for me.
~ Jack Sock
I have always boxed better with a bit of nerves.
~ George Groves
I'm confident and when you have power like me, it relaxes your nerves.
~ Anthony Yarde
The nerves are still there. I might just do a better job at hiding them.
~ Devlin Hodges
I have nerves before every fight - it doesn't matter who I'm fighting - and every fight is your biggest fight, so I've always got to check myself.
~ Ryan Bader
Some nerves are good, as it shows you care.
~ Leigh-Anne Pinnock
You probably don't hit as many fairway-bunker shots as you do the greenside ones, and that unfamiliarity might make you a bit nervous.
~ Ernie Els
There were so many nerves with putting out new music.
~ Noah Cyrus
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
Shut up, shut up, she ordered herself, but nerves overwhelmed her. "You have a wonderful operation. Meara showed me around. And you're right. Alastar has spirit, and a strong will, but he's not mean. Not innately. He's just mad and unsettled, finding himself in a strange place, with people and horses he's not used to. Now he has something to prove, especially to Boyle.
~ Nora Roberts
Eat your food, drink your tea, then we'll begin. Nerves aren't shameful. Not
~ Nora Roberts
for the war gave us the war of nerves and it gave us the concentration camp.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Trees that are only trees by daylight are many and various other things at night. They are lurking, impossible monsters of the animal world or crouching human ruffians, of ferocious aspect and intent, depending upon their shape, size, color, distance from the beholder, and general state of well-being or decay. One's own well-being has some bearing on the matter. Strong nerves are needed to walk among them in the darkness.
~ Vincent Starrett
Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.
~ Virginia Woolf
Övgüler yerindeydi de, yerinde olmayan sinirlerimdi.
~ Virginia Woolf
I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.
~ Lauren Bacall
Once a week she would have to strain her nerves in going over about one dozen letters and a few dozen papers, mostly Fireside Companions from Portland, Maine. The mail sack would be dumped out on the floor and sorted over there.
~ Charles A. Siringo
When an exquisite poem brings one's eyes to the point of tears, those tears are not evidence of an excess of joy, they are witness far more to an exacerbated melancholy, a disposition of the nerves, a nature exiled among imperfect things, which would like to possess, without delay, a paradise revealed on this very same earth.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!
~ Charles Dickens
But tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof. Like washable beaver hats that improve with rain, his nerves were rendered stouter and more vigorous, by showers of tears, which, being tokens of weakness, and so far tacit admissions of his own power, pleased and exalted him.
~ Charles Dickens