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Quotes About Nervous

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.
~ Jo Brand
I always have gotten nervous before every show. But the second I step onstage, it's all gone. It's sort of like an adrenaline rush for me.
~ Tom Green
I got nervous at bulls and eagles, Trying to figure what shape Zeus might take for sex When it could be your turn next. But now I don't care any longer, I've come to my senses, your profile leaves me cold. Why am I different? you ask. I'll tell you. Because you keep nagging For presents . That's what turns me off.
~ Ovid
The American's force and nervous energy fascinated Lord Emsworth. As for Mr. Peters, nothing like the earl had ever happened to him before in a long and varied life. Each, in fact, was to the other a perpetual freak show, with no charge for admission. And if anything had been needed to cement the alliance it would have been supplied by the fact that they were both collectors.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
The door opened and Oakes entered tensely. He did everything tensely, partly from a natural nervous energy, and partly as a pose.
~ P.G. Wodehouse
All his movements were lethargic, as though he had a layer of silk insulating his central nervous system.
~ Pat Conroy
Dios es la energía que fluye a través de la sinapsis de nuestro sistema nervioso y las cavidades de nuestros corazones! ¡Dios está en todas las cosas!
~ Dan Brown
Anybody might get drunk at the first intrrview.
~ Daniel Handler
Describe your state of mine. Insecure. Uncertain. Feverish
~ William Boyd
They damaged his nervous system with a wartime Russian mycotoxin. Strapped to a bed in a Memphis hotel, his talent burning out micron by micron, he hallucinated for thirty hours. The damage was minute, subtle, and utterly effective. For Case, who'd lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall.
~ William Gibson
Plasticity … means the possession of a structure weak enough to yield to an influence, but strong enough not to yield all at once. Each relatively stable phase of equilibrium in such a structure is marked by what we may call a new set of habits. Organic matters, especially nervous tissues, seem to be endowed with a very extraordinary degree of plasticity of this sort ...
~ William James
so filled with nervous energy that I can feel the blood pumping through my heart.
~ Christina Baker Kline
Speechwriters are fundamentally Calvinist: They become nervous if their principals exhibit free will and depart from the prepared text.
~ Christopher Buckley
Done any more robberies?" he asked with a nervous grin. You look a right berk," I told him, ignoring his question. I'd learnt from Tam that cruelty was an effective method against sadness. I'd cried much less since I'd known her.
~ Helen Cross
Goshawks are nervous because they live life ten times faster than we do, and they react to stimuli literally without thinking.
~ Helen Macdonald
Miranda found sunflowers very ugly, and yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.
~ Helen Oyeyemi
I have practiced risk taking throughout my career because I believe what I can contribute is important. That isn't to say that I don't feel nervous. I have come to accept that trying something new involves discomfort—and taking risks gets easier with practice. I also have reached out for support. My risk-taking ventures haven't always succeeded, but enough of them did. And even when my efforts did not work out, I learned something valuable from trying
~ Helene Lerner
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter.
~ Henry Adams
Jangles my nerves like a tambourine of razors.
~ Henry Rollins
Sit down, master on this rude chair of praises, and rule my nervous heart with your great decrees of freedom.
~ Leonard Cohen
Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.
~ Maurice Jarre
All our societies on the verge of nervous breakdowns, but still they do not collapse. All these bodies subject to the most incredible physical, ideological, media persecutions, yet they resist with an improbable malleability. Far from bemoaning our fragility, we should admire our stamina and that of the social body as a whole.
~ Jean Baudrillard
I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.
~ Mark Ruffalo
As I understand from the real military personnel who I've had the opportunity to speak to over the last few years, humor is very much used to diffuse stress. I think that if they were to keep it as serious as the situations often are, there would be a lot more nervous breakdowns.
~ Daniela Ruah