Top 39 Jittery Quotes
#1. My parents' names are Rebecca and Jeremiah, by the way," he whispered as I approached him.
I laughed, jittery. "Got it. So even though they'll be too busy screaming at you, and they can't hear me anyway, I'll at least be able to address them properly?
Tara Hudson
#3. I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry ... and miserable. I think it's awful.
Ingmar Bergman
#4. Something in those jittery black-and-golden scraps recalled her sight's desire. So it always went, with life and its paler imitations.
Richard Powers
#5. With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The
Sela Ward
#6. Where Cezanne captured and intensified shards of the eternal (every pear far more sharply defined than it could be in life), Monet portrayed the changeability and flux of every moment. 'The Water Lilies' give you a jittery, amorphous sense of a world seen at the speed of light.
Jerry Saltz
#7. The movements of some more little red birds in the garden, like animated rosebuds, appeared unbearably jittery and thievish. It was as though the creatures were attached by sensitive wires to his nerves.
Malcolm Lowry
#8. It must've been Albert's military background, because man, when he dropped a bomb the entire country shook. I was still jittery as a hurricane survivor in New Orleans, and I was sure that somewhere in Alaska some poor Inuit had just taken a tumble from his sled for the very same reason.
Jennifer Rardin
#9. Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says I'm happiest when I'm shooting.
Rankin
#10. Even with the coffee, I'm never fully awake, just jittery.
Rachel Friedman
#11. Ironic and jittery, we are puzzled by the old heroes with their fighting, boasting, and cocksure lovemaking.
Mason Cooley
#12. When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.
Alice Oswald
#13. If I don't have an outlet in which to express myself ... throug h songwriting or other mediums ... I get a bit jittery.
Laura Marling
#14. So what are you doing around here?" I ask, feeling all jittery, but this time it's in a good way.
"Oh, I was just in the area." he says vaguely. "I thought I'd take Welly for a walk ... " He trails off and stuffs his hands in his pockets.
Those butterflies are going crazy in there.
Alexandra Potter
#15. I like to feel the butterflies in the stomach, I like to go home and have a restless night and wonder how I'm going to be able to accomplish this feat, get jittery. That hunger and those butterflies in the stomach are very essential for all creative people.
Amitabh Bachchan
#16. Physically, I was always moving. I was always a little jittery.
Finn Wittrock
#17. [A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...].
Alan W. Watts
#18. I'm going to be late. I get home exactly sixteen minutes before my shift starts, which only gives me six minutes to get it together and get out the door. By get it together I mean calm the freak down, because I'm jittery and spastic and acting, as Mo would say, like a squirrel on crack.
Jessica Martinez
#19. The stars were going out now, one by one, dropping like pennies behind the television aerials and the skylights and the washing strung between the chimneys. The sky was still dark - a sated, navy-blue woman - but the grass was jittery with the expectation of dawn.
Peter S. Beagle
#20. Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could at least attempt sleep and that if she dreamed she might then finally be with Henry.
Anna Godbersen
#21. Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats ... for jittery people.
William Styron
#22. There's something that goes on in a new-business meeting that's wonderful to watch. It's like showtime. There are people who are nervous, and there are people who are jittery, and there's so much drama and so much at stake.
Jerry Della Femina
#23. Every time I make a record, it's kind of like scarification or something. You work 15 hours until you're stupid. You're just kind of all jittery.
Andrew Bird
#24. We others are not like you. We are more prickly, more jittery, more restless, more secretive, more desperate, more cowardly, more bold. We live at the edges of ourselves, not in the middle places. We leave that to you.
Steven Millhauser
#25. As jittery as a caffeine addict outside a closed Starbucks.
Karen Robards
#26. He wasn't offended. She was the one who was over-interpreting, and jittery in his presence, and she was annoyed with herself.
Ian McEwan
#27. I knew I couldn't be imagining it, because it wasn't exactly a good feeling, and if I'd imagined touching Cam, if would have felt good.
Inara Scott
#28. Obamacare represents a shocking display of political arrogance. It's about time Washington started listening to Americans' common sense voices.
Fred Upton
#29. What they are doing is taking something that otherwise creates pollution and turning it into something useful.
Barbara Lee
#30. Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.
Warren Farrell
#31. I would have married her before I went away to war too, just to make sure that someone else didn't.
V.T. Davy
#32. It's difficult to see how Syria can have any long-term future with Assad there as president. Many people would never return to that country if that were the case.
George Osborne
#33. And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come - it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.
Ally Carter
#34. You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner
#35. There is a school in Heaven, and there one has only to learn how to love. The school is in the Cenacle; the Teacher is Jesus; the matter taught is His Flesh and His Blood
Gemma Galgani
#36. He wanted her to kneel at his feet. He wanted to carry her on his shoulders. His girl. His property.
April Vine
#38. With the young man starting in business, let him understand the value of money by earning it.
P.T. Barnum
#39. My mother, in the style of the times, told me I could do anything I set my sights on. She said I could be the president, an astronaut, or the next Charles Schulz. I believed her because at that point in my life I hadn't yet noticed the pattern of her deceptions.
Scott Adams
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