Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
Emily Dickinson

All this flying around got on my nerves. But then I gave the script to Cathy to get her opinion. When she started to laugh, it was like 'That's it!'. I went to LA and I got the part.
Ed O'Neill

Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids.
Sharon Stone

Being unprepared heightens nerves.
James Galway

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
Robert Browning

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
Queen Victoria

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

He who feels compelled to consider the consequences of these facts cannot but realize that the specific sensibility of nerves for certain impressions is not enough, since all nerves are sensitive to the same cause but react to the same cause in different ways.
Johannes P. Muller

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads.
Fritz Kreisler

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.
Mordechai Vanunu

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
Amelie Mauresmo

I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
Shaquille O'Neal

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
Eric Clapton

I don't like money actually, but it quiets the nerves.
Joe E. Lewis

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.
Joe Louis

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.
Temple Grandin

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