Quotes About Nerve

My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic. I have a bad nerve in the back of my eye.

I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

Mom always used to say that stupid people have more nerve than brains.

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

We came out here to find the American Dream, and now that we're right in the vortex you want to quit ... You must realize that we've found the main nerve. I know, he said. That's what gives me the Fear.

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

I look like the aggressor, he'd say to me, but I not. I fighting for my life. The old man no need be a bully, the system the bully. He can afford to act the nice guy and pretend I doing him wrong. He can afford to be easygoing when he sitting on me and sucking me dry. The other number one sons crab like hell too, but they doan have the nerve to crab to their old men. They crab to me, they crab to each other, they crab to their younger brothers.

The nerve of the woman,' said Milly, 'to commit suicide from my house!

Thank goodness it's you, not that madman who came last time, the one with the bullfighter's name. He seemed drunk to me, or else eminently certifiable. He had the nerve to ask me whether I knew the etymology of the word 'prick,' in a sarcastic tone that was quite out of place.

When she leveraged her value to obtain a thirty-hour schedule at her first job, for example, her employer couldn't say no (she was saving them too much money), but they didn't like it. It took nerve on Lulu's part to push through that demand.

Lord Submarine . . ." "Camarine." "Whatever." "You can call me Declan." He said it as if granting her knighthood. The nerve.

It's just that I don't hope any more, I've lost my nerve.

He was not one of those dull-witted, unimaginative men of nerveless meat who were too stupid ever to be afraid

Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

I had an alarm, I had nerve gas, I had a yogurt. What more could anyone want?

There are certain foods that are somewhat sacred or you're not supposed to mess with. When you do mess with them, it touches a nerve where you have to compare it to the original, and then that thing you're creating has a loosing change right out of the gate.

I believe that thoughts and feelings reside on the same nerve-ending…they are called heartstrings

Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

Talent was merely the underpinnings. To be an artist, you also had to have nerve. And to maintain nerve, you had to have drive.

What limits people is lack of character. What limits people is that they don't have the fucking nerve or imagination to star in their own movie, let alone direct it.

but the music, which he hoped would coat his nerve ends, only splayed them.

The little brain in the gut develops from the same embryonic tissue as the brain in the head, and the two are connected via the massive vagus nerve. Most intriguingly, there is a nine-to-one rate of data transfer from the gut to the brain, as opposed to the brain to the gut.

This fear was unbearable. It unwrapped who she was, as neatly as he'd unwound her bandage, leaving too much pain and ugliness exposed. Nerve endings; he'd said they were the problem [causing phantom pain in the amputated limb]." Things that cut off, that ended abruptly or died--like parents and marriages--kept hurting forever.