Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

Coaches do get very nervous.

Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.

Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.

Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

Did you hear about the dog that was so high-strung, he developed a nervous tick?

Everyone has scenes with the snakes in Where the Truth Lies. There was a 20-foot python that was a little scary, but they were all non-venomous so... I was more nervous with the snakes than the nudity.

Do I make you nervous?" His gaze travels from my eyes to my breasts and down to where my dress meets my thighs. "In that dress you do.

Do you mind not being so kind and obedient? It makes me nervous.

Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

Every audition, I still get nervous. I still get sweaty palms. I don't think that ever goes away. You just get accustomed to it.

Europe is nervous. Already rattled this year by the shock of the Brexit vote, the European Union needs stability in Italy, a country notorious for its instability.

Everyone's nervous these days. Ronald McDonald has hired six bodyguards, and that's just to protect his buns.

For tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities, or are become so from wine-drinking, and are not susceptible of influence from so refined a stimulant, will always be the favourite beverage of the intellectual.

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.

External reality is sort of an affectation of the nervous system.

He smiles so much, I don't think he has a central nervous system.

Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.

God's never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.

Guns make me very nervous. They're dangerous. I'm more of a pacifist than anyone could imagine.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

I am basically very private, and I'm really nervous about doing publicity.

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I am definitely a little more nervous for my colleagues when I'm working at mission control than I am myself, on the shuttle.

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

I am still nervous every show. Not in the "Wow, I'm scared, I can't go on nervous," but the "I really want to do a good job and the give the audience a great show" kind of nervous. Oh, yes, the nerves are there, but I let them push me instead of holding me back.

I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.

I come from athletics and I have a pretty big boxing background, so I never really shy away or get nervous about the physical rigors of filmmaking.

I can't do talk shows, I don't do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.

I can't say I'm not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I'm getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.

I come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.

I'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

I don't feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I'm always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I've always felt like I worked better under pressure.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I don't feel nervous or fearful when I'm on stage.

I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].

I don't have any [specific] intelligence about a Vice-Disney deal, but I do know that everybody's nervous about these emerging players, who can come in and have enough attractive, original content to take market share.

I don't like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous

I don't know what to do with my arms. It just makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that makes me nervous.

I eat breakfast 300 yards from 4000 Cubans, who are trained to kill me, so don't think for one second that you can come down here, flash your badge and make me nervous.

I don't like the country. The crickets make me nervous.