Nervy Quotes

#1. Dreams are nervy things - all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

Lloyd Jones

#2. His wife had been wild about him at first; she had treated him with an amorous servility that had turned him against her all the more. Vivacious, effusive, and very loving in the early days, over the years she had, like a stale wine that turns to vinegar, grown ill-humoured, waspish, and nervy.

Gustave Flaubert

#3. But perfection is a nervy business, because the moment you spot the tiniest flaw it's ruined.

Lev Grossman

#4. It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.

Nick Cave

#5. I'm a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.

Ed Weeks

#6. My always needn't be forever. I'm ready for the plunge, nervy as a cliff-diver. Though if down the line things go rotten we can both climb the cliffs again. Life is long.

Richard Ford

#7. She felt nervy as all her excitements turned into weaknesses

Munia Khan

#8. These are the ushers of Martius: before him
He carries noise, and behind him he leaves tears.
Death, that dark spirit, in's nervy arm doth lie,
Which being advanc'd, declines, and then men die.

William Shakespeare

#9. Aven, I have given up smoking again! ... God! I feel fit. Homicidal, but fit. A different man. Irritable, moody, depressed, rude, nervy, perhaps; but the lungs are fine.

A.P. Herbert

#10. He was a silent type, very nervy of people: shy, introverted, nobody would believe he could scream so loud ... well he did drink a bottle of bleach!

Stephen Richards

#11. I know it sounds strange - a blind teenager buzzin' round on a motorcycle - but I liked that; that was me. I had always been nervy, and I always had a lot of faith in my ability not to break my neck.

Ray Charles

#12. Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order.

Virginia Aird

#13. They have become part of us in that if we get dressed up as them, we don't actually have to have a script. You can just become them. You just become nervy.

Jennifer Saunders

#14. We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

E.L. Doctorow

#15. Kate Upton is curvy and nervy.

Tyra Banks

#16. Quick, nervy and jumpy -yet to the children she was as constant as a staff, a tree that can be counted on not to pull up its root and shift in the night. She was the tree that grew in the centre of their lives and in whose shade they lived.

Anita Desai

#17. Nervy little Shades' Hill purse-clutcher, thinking you can keep me in the dark. What plan?"
"The plan to steal a corpse."
"Ahem. Anything else you'd like to tell me about it?"
"It's brilliant.

Scott Lynch

#18. I'm a very nervy kind of person, who finds it almost impossible to relax.

Catherine Jinks

#19. What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

Keith Ablow

#20. Nobody's life is interesting enough to warrant a third memoir.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. Trust me, if you're working on a $70 million movie and you're the last guy, you feel all that weight on your shoulders.

Hans Zimmer

#22. Evidence is of no longer consequence when hope enters the fray, and this is
where faith is born - a seemingly abundant commodity certain powerful
organizations feed on fervently, if not lavishly.

Justin Villanueva

#23. It was reported in the paper that President Bush received a 'warm reception' from the Daytona 500 drivers. Well sure, the drivers had never met anyone who was sponsored by more oil companies than they were.

Jay Leno

#24. Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Muhammad Ali

#25. But revolutionary is not an acceptable term to those who benefit from, and deny at the same time, the savage exploitativeness of the social system.

Herbert Schiller

#26. Considering the length of time that women have been dependent, is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?

Mary Wollstonecraft

#27. A close relationship, she thought. As far as they are concerned, all that means is a threat to which they don't want to expose themselves.

Henning Mankell

#28. I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

Pearl Tan

#29. He would never comprehend what I was going through unless I told him, but he'd never look at me the same way again if I did.

Caroline Mitchell

#30. People have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room.

George W. Bush

#31. A riveting and realistic portrayal of space travel gone wrong, and of a crew who must fight for their survival. Bones Burnt Black is exciting, and expertly told. A must-listen.

J. C. Hutchins