Best 310 quotes in «nervous quotes» category

Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.

American university presidents are a nervous breed; I have never thought well of them as a class.

Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.

Any attempt to reduce the complex properties of biological organisms or of nervous systems or of human brains to simple physical and chemical systems is foolish.

Anyone who hasn't been nervous, or hasn't choked somewhere down the line, is an idiot.

Anyone who tells you they're not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I'm afraid they're not telling you the whole story.

Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

Because of the movies I make, people get nervous. They think of me as difficult and angry. I am difficult and angry, but they don't expect a sense of humor. And the only thing that gets me through is a sense of humor.

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.

Being nervous, first of all, puts you at a distinct disadvantage, and if you've really prepared and if you've really thought through how to start the conversation, things start to fall into place. There are other things I get nervous about, but not that.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

Being nervous actually kept me very tense.

Being unprepared makes me nervous. I'm old-fashioned show folk.

Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it's about not getting bored.

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn't care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.

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

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

Coaches do get very 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

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

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

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