Nervous Quotes

#1. 61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.

Walter Benjamin

#2. And then the critics, going back to the novels of his maturity, found that their English had a nervous, racy vigour that eminently suited the matter.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. The outside world is just a bad habit of the so-called nervous system.

Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

#4. I'm just a real loner kind of person, and yeah, kinda dark. But I'm happy. Not sad. I'm just shy and nervous.

Clea Duvall

#5. I've got a lot of nervous energy and I trip a lot. I don't have a good equilibrium. In the places where the physical comedy was necessary, it came very naturally and it was fun.

Kristen Bell

#6. The street was full of animals, milling around uncertainly. When animals are in a state of uncertainty they get nervous, and the street was already, as it were, paved with anxiety.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Jessica Cameron had to propose marriage in a couple of hours, and she was a little nervous about it. Trying

Noelle Adams

#8. Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. Of course you're nervous going into a final.

Li Na

#10. Toward dusk, the black birds descend, millions of them, to sit in the branches of trees nearby. The trees grow heavy with black birds, branches like dendrites of the Nervous System fattening, deep in twittering nerve-dusk, in preparation for some important message ... .

Thomas Pynchon

#11. I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.

Laura Donnelly

#12. I don't know. It depends on the day. Depends on the hour of the day ... I don't really know if I really want to do that. I think I do and then I think I don't. It makes me really nervous to think about really doing it.

Elizabeth Berg

#13. It's good to be a little nervous. God compensates those with a lack of talent with an overabundance of self-confidence. -Gigi

Karen White

#14. Nervous energy is the ammunition we take into any mental battle. If you don't have enough of it, your concentration will fade. If you have a surplus, the results will explode.

Garry Kasparov

#15. I'm always nervous about singing ... always. It may be one of the only things I sweat about.

Ed Robertson

#16. I don't really get nervous in front of people. I kind of walk into every situation like I'm walking in to meet my peers, and they either like me or not.

Nico Tortorella

#17. And finally, count your blessings. You got through college. You didn't commit suicide, O.D., or have a nervous breakdown, and let's remember the ones who did. It's time to get busy. It's your turn to cause trouble.

John Waters

#18. I trust my makeup artist to apply dark lipstick, but I get nervous about reapplying it, so I'll just use gloss instead. The last time I tried to reapply dark lipstick, I dropped it on my dress and it left a spot.

Jessica Biel

#19. Speaking figuratively, they were soon chronic alcoholics, men who lived by violence, through extreme action and sensation, through drowning daily in a perpetual nervous agitation. From

Richard Wright

#20. He doesn't seem that nervous to me," Parker said.
Oreo farted audibly.
Zoe fanned the air. "See? Nervous."
Parker laughed. "My guess would be he's eaten some of your cookies.

Jill Shalvis

#21. I'm kind of a sloppy feminist. Any ideology makes me a little nervous because there's some point where it doesn't allow for the complexity of things.

Kim Gordon

#22. I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

Lionel Blue

#23. Makes me nervous on about five different levels. "Oh, no. He frosted under heavy guard. He's still under lock and key. But I've talked to him," Haymitch says. "Face-to-face?

Suzanne Collins

#24. Yeah, but if I don't start my nervous pacing now, I'll never have it all done in time.

Scott Lynch

#25. I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.

Rachel Notley

#26. The gentle fair on nervous tea relies,
Whilst gay good-nature sparkles in her eyes;
An inoffensive scandal fluttering round,
Too rough to tickle, and too light to wound.

George Crabbe

#27. I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.

Dana Hill

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

Renee Fleming

#29. Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

Deborah Grey

#30. I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.

David Lynch

#31. I remember the first time I spoke to an editor. I thought I'd be sick, I was so nervous. The first time I spoke to a large group at a conference, I had the jitters for days beforehand.

Lori Foster

#32. I'm an incurable optimist and a go-getter - it's in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.

Demi Moore

#33. I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Elon Musk

#34. Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.

Wilhelm Wundt

#35. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Bertrand Russell

#36. My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

Blair Underwood

#37. Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

Vivien Leigh

#38. America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.

Norman Vincent Peale

#39. Some friends of mine work in an office. They were getting really nervous from their coffee breaks, so they started to have wig breaks. They tried on wigs for 15 minutes. They found this relaxing. So that's Wig Therapy.

Laurie Anderson

#40. Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not be certain whether some of these symptoms were the result of radiation or nervous shock.

John Hersey

#41. I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.

Robert Redford

#42. I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.

Martin Donovan

#43. Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.

Michael Masser

#44. Nervous people tend to overreact.

Toba Beta

#45. A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Earl Wilson

#46. I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

Jo Brand

#47. It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing.

Dannii Minogue

#48. When I was younger, it was about doing something that made me nervous. Now, it's for many different reasons. I've had the opportunity to have fun. I don't know why that is, but I like it.

Vincent D'Onofrio

#49. People say to me that I can't be nervous because I've had such a wealth of experience, but I tell them that I have never done this particular part before.

Brenda Blethyn

#50. I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig ... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

Jo Brand

#51. I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.

Alan Rickman

#52. Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

George Crumb

#53. When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all - because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.

Eva Hoffman

#54. That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace.

J.D. Salinger

#55. The first hit on the nervous system is the one I'm most interested in, because I think if you hit the reader emotionally, the reader can't guarantee the lessons they would like to learn.

Fred D'Aguiar

#56. I grew up in a town with no movie theater. TV was my only link to the outside world. Film wasn't such a big deal to me. It was TV. So much so, that when I meet TV stars now ... Not my co-workers, but real TV stars, I get nervous. I freak out around them.

DJ Qualls

#57. Have you ever watched a deer walking out from cover? They step, stop, and stay, motionless, nose to the air, looking and smelling. A nervous twitch might run down their flanks. And then, reassured that all is safe, they ankle their way out of the brush to graze.

Helen Macdonald

#58. I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.

Casey Affleck

#59. Smoking too much makes me nervous. Must lasso my natural tendency to acquire such habits. Holding heavy cigar constantly in my mouth has deformed my upper lip, it has a sort of Havana curl.

Thomas A. Edison

#60. I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

Bernie Sanders

#61. Wait, no, fuck cheese. Cheese is all about spores and, and, molds and all that shit. Maybe cheese is trying to colonize our brains, too. Cheese and music duking it out for control of the human nervous system.

Michael Chabon

#62. I was a nervous kid, not great socially.

Richard Madden

#63. When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder.

Bertrand Russell

#64. It is a fact that plants also have life like animals. But animals are endowed with mind, and nervous systems too while the plants do not possess the same.

Sathya Sai Baba

#65. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored and listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me.

H.P. Lovecraft

#66. There are two types of speakers: those that
are nervous and those that are liars.

Mark Twain

#67. I'm getting nervous to be called a centrist. Breaking out in a rash.

Jeb Bush

#68. I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

Carolina Herrera

#69. You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.

Alexa Von Tobel

#70. Success made me self-sufficient, but it also took away my anonymity. I'm just this quiet nobody, and all of a sudden people are nervous around me. That was kind of weird.

Lisa Bonet

#71. Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

Charlotte Bronte

#72. Call it anything else if you will - fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating
- but "shyness" is the historic word for it.

Richard N. Bolles

#73. What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.

Ursula Dubosarsky

#74. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.

Sylvia Plath

#75. There are a lot of signs. One of the things that makes me most nervous is the disappearance of the frogs. They're going downhill all over the planet. Frogs are susceptible to all kinds of problems, because they require water to breed and their skin is very porous. Their condition is nerve racking.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#76. For the first time in a long time, I was nervous around a man. Vince and I have been rather close for the past year, but it's been an emotional connection. This

Jessica N. Watkins

#77. I've never been this nervous before. Why aren't you here yet?

Scott Jackson

#78. I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

Margaret Atwood

#79. Alex was late. I was grateful. I was also incredibly nervous and I'd gotten mascara in my eye. I blinked a lot as I did a last check.

Melissa Jensen

#80. You've got to stay in pretty good shape to be a pro wrestler, and all the TNA wrestlers get a bit nervous when I wrestle them because they're afraid I'll tire them out, but the Olympics is a whole different level.

Kurt Angle

#81. I also have a routine with breathing and visualization techniques that I go through when I feel overwhelmed or nervous.

Amanda Schull

#82. I can't play video games because I get too nervous. It just stresses me out.

Michael Cudlitz

#83. There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Anna Wintour

#84. Religious people of any serious kind made her nervous: they were like men in raincoats who might or might not be flashers.

Margaret Atwood

#85. I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Liz Phair

#86. I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.

Meryl Streep

#87. If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away from you. They think you're from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest,' you know.

Frank Bruno

#88. I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.

Busy Philipps

#89. I guess anyone would be nervous to give your life over to someone to make a film about it.

Jill Eikenberry

#90. Nervous?" he asked, his voice barely audible above the steady slice of his oars through the calm bay.
"No," she lied.
"Me too.

Sarah J. Maas

#91. I was passionate about soccer. I still am. Odd, though - playing soccer always made me much more anxious than playing tennis. On soccer days, I'd be out of bed by 6 in the morning, all nervous. But I was always calm when it was time for a tennis match. I still don't know why.

Rafael Nadal

#92. Soren huffed. "I saw her looking at me when we were changing into our uniforms."
"She was looking at you because you're built like a bull."
Soren's laugh was nervous, clipped. "Is that good?"
"It'd be great if she were a cow.

Veronica Rossi

#93. Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

Adriana Lima

#94. The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.

Sylvia Plath

#95. Put a scoop of ice cream on it?" she asked. "And coffee. Everyone want coffee?" She looked inquiringly at us, smiling in a way that made me decidedly nervous, especially after that "I can get us a body" remark, and I nodded. Coffee? Why not?

Kim Harrison

#96. These were the new girls of New York- complete with rapid heartbeats from too much nicotine and coffee. They were nervous and fluttery but completely alluring- the new face of urban femininity.

Elizabeth Winder

#97. There are two kinds of speakers. Those who are nervous and those who are liars.

Mark Twain

#98. The very use of the term "mental illness" (rather than, say, "neurosis", "insanity", "nervous breakdown", or other euphemisms) can be seen as an effort to move certain kinds of psychological distress into the biomedical realm.

Carl Elliott

#99. If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

Henry Waxman

#100. My first kiss was when I was 13. I was so nervous that I was shaking. Unfortunately, the girl I kissed never spoke to me again.

Conor Maynard