Jangled Nerves Quotes

#1. Inject laughter into tense situations to save the day; laughter calms tempers and soothes jangled nerves.

Wilferd Peterson

#2. After such mornings he returned to the show with relief. It eased him to push through the crowds of people. The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves.

Carson McCullers

#3. There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Kirby Larson

#4. The worst place anyone can start on is "wrong expectations

Ngina Otiende

#5. The cry of the poor is is not always just, but if you don't listen to it, you will never know what justice is.

Howard Zinn

#6. It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

Maurice Chevalier

#7. How many records you sell really does not matter. It's whatever you give.

Patrick Wolf

#8. Stay a dreamer, and you'll never have your dream; get down in the nitty-gritty, and when you get your dream you see what horseshit it was in the first place.

Norman Spinrad

#9. Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

Will Schwalbe

#10. Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.

Erika Slezak

#11. I mean, every novel's a historical novel anyway. But calling something a historical novel seems to put mittens on it, right? It puts manners on it. And you don't want your novels to be mannered.

Colum McCann