“ It was like a physical impact, something vital and quick, happening to us both. And I knew, from that moment, that whatever happened between us, we might disagree, get on each other's nerves, quarrel, do each other harm, but we could never be indifferent. ”
- Conrad Veidt- Copy
- 518
“ The nerves are a problem on trumpet, because when you mess up everyone can hear it. Just remember most people are too polite to say anything about it. That should calm your nerves. ”
- Wynton Marsalis- Copy
- 3K
“ When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? ”
- Russell Hoban- Copy
- 1.3K
“ You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. ”
- Jane Austen- Copy
- 429
“ Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life not only decently, but dignifiedly. ”
- George Borrow- Copy
- 2K
“ I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. ”
- e. e. cummings- Copy
- 3.2K
“ There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ”
- Doris Humphrey- Copy
- 2.8K
“ No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw. ”
- Christy Mathewson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas Alva Edison- Copy
- 2.2K
“ The big trick in putting is not method the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ”
- Henry Cotton- Copy
- 1K
“ A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves. ”
- Alan Beck- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
- 3.5K
“ When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ”
- J. Krishnamutri- Copy
- 2.7K
“ After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ”
- Emily Dickinson- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do. ”
- Bruce Crampton- Copy
- 958
“ Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 733
“ Many think they have a kind heart who only have weak nerves. ”
- Marie Von Ebner Eschenbach- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Nerves provide me with energy… It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried. ”
- Mike Nichols- Copy
- 1.9K
“ 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- Copy
- 600
“ Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor understands; neither has she of herself the feeling of outward or inward, where she may move. And in all things it is God who rules and guides her, without the meditation of any creature… And she is so full of peace that thought she pressed her flesh, her nerves, her bones, no other thing come forth from them than peace. ”
- St. Catherine of Genoa- Copy
- 2.3K
“ When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely — the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears — when you give your whole attention to it. ”
- Jiddu Krishnamurti- Copy
- 1.1K
“ The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life not only decently, but dignifiedly. ”
- George Borrow- Copy
- 576
“ If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel. ”
- Geraldine Chaplin- Copy
- 3K
“ We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us. ”
- Storm Jameson- Copy
- 456
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