Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

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.

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.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

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

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

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

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

I am too nervous to eat pie.

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

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

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 come from the bush ... where men are men, and the sheep are 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'd be worried about myself as a human if I hadn't been nervous.

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

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

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

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

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 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 mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.

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

I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

I don't want being a woman to be a factor, or being short to bea factor, or being Jewish to be a factor, or anything that makes you outside some design "norm"that I don't understand anyway. 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.

If I'm with a group of people, I'm okay, but actually I'm quite a nervous person if I'm just one-to-one with somebody.

I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

If you aren't nervous about your passion, you aren't passionate about it.

I get irritated, nervous, very tense or stressed, but never bored.

I get nervous when I fly; I'm used to walking with my feet.

I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.

I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.

I get very nervous in un-trodden territory but it's important to keep doing it just to prove to myself that I can do it.

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

I get nervous watching teammates. I get nervous for them. Late in the game, pressure situation, I'm nervous for them.

I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.