Racking Quotes

#1. For the Lord aimed for him to do and not to spend too much time thinking, because his brain it's like a piece of machinery: it won't stand a whole lot of racking. It's best when it all runs along the same, doing the day's work and not no one part used no more than needful.

William Faulkner

#2. Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

Edna Ferber

#3. I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.

Hilarie Burton

#4. I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck.

Craig Ferguson

#5. I find acting slightly nerve racking, but I like the challenge.

Jane Wiedlin

#6. The red-carpet spotlight is a little bit more nerve-racking when you haven't been doing it all the time.

Shania Twain

#7. You can't buy happiness. You can't earn it. God isn't counting all the deals you're racking up.

Jenny B. Jones

#8. While I'm always up for a good scrap, and don't even mind racking up a few bumps and bruises along the way, I'm not really the martyr type. I have sensitive skin and there's nothing that irritates more than nails being driven through it.

Tim Marquitz

#9. It is a racking thing to have a plague of ideas and no chance to get rid of them on paper. I've nearly gone mad at times.

Inez Haynes Irwin

#10. Look. This has been ... fun." Lie. This had been nerve-racking and I needed to go masturbate. "But I have to go. I've got stuff to do before I head out again." Masturbate. "Wizard stuff. Like ... secret wizard stuff." Masturbate.

T.J. Klune

#11. I am racking my brains to find out why he left without saying goodby to me.

Eva Braun

#12. Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

William John Locke

#13. My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.

Hailee Steinfeld

#14. I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills.' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.

Audrina Patridge

#15. The numbness of his loss had passed, and the pain would hit me out of nowhere, doubling me over, racking my body with sobs. Where are you? I would cry out in my mind. Where have you gone? Of course, there was never any answer.

Suzanne Collins

#16. When I was four, we had to choose a musical instrument to play at school, and I chose the cello. I played until I was 18, and although I found it nerve-racking to play solo, I loved playing in an orchestra. When I left school I didn't carry on with it, which I regret.

Emilia Fox

#17. I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.

Joe Manganiello

#18. Claire. The name knifed across his heart with a pain that was more racking than anything his body had ever been called on to withstand.

Diana Gabaldon

#19. The first time I was flown to L.A. for a screen test was an incredibly nerve-racking experience.

Luke Evans

#20. I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini - taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.

Cindy Margolis

#21. It's definitely nerve-racking to be the center of attention. I'm not the kind of an actor that just craves attention 24-7 - but it's part of the deal. You're the leader on the set.

Jon Hamm

#22. Auditioning is so nerve-racking.

Leslie Mann

#23. It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.

Lauren Hart

#24. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

Eddie Marsan

#25. He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.

Alexandre Dumas

#26. It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#27. Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue;

W. Somerset Maugham

#28. Then she laughed. It was almost a racking laugh. It shook her as the wind shakes a tree. I thought there was puzzlement in it, not exactly surprise, but as if a new idea had been added to something already known and it didn't fit. Then I thought that was too much to get out of a laugh.

Raymond Chandler

#29. When I was going on auditions, it was nerve-racking. I'd always say to my mom that it would be awesome if I could get a series. When Modern Family came along, I said, 'You know what, Mom? I believe I'm going to get this role.'

Rico Rodriguez

#30. Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.

Bette Davis

#31. It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

#32. 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

#33. They had decided that BO and halitosis were worked out, or nearly, and had been racking their brains for a long time to think of some new way of scaring the public. Then some bright spark had suggested, What about smelling feet? That field had never been exploited and had immense possibilities.

George Orwell

#34. Locke threw himself at Father Chains, and the man, without hesitation, scooped him up and held him, patting his back until his racking sobs quieted down.

Scott Lynch

#35. I usually have a drink before a carpet because I find them really nerve-racking. Usually a tequila. An upper!

Bella Heathcote

#36. Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.

Charles Churchill

#37. A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.

Lydia Ko

#38. Presenting the Oscars was the most nerve-racking job I have ever done in show business. It's very much a live show: they have comedy writers waiting in the wings, and as you come off between presentations, they hand you an appropriate gag to tell.

Michael Caine

#39. I was racking up prescription slips like Boy Scout badges. What didn't I have?

Jason Diamond

#40. Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.

Donny Deutsch

#41. Three months later, on September 5, 2001, at a pro-am event preceding the Canadian Open at the Royal Montreal Golf Club, I was invited to play a round with Tiger Woods. Nothing in the game of politics had ever been as nerve-racking as that game of golf.

Jean Chretien

#42. I can't remember feeling this way ... since well, ever. It's new. It's scary. It's exciting. It's nerve-racking. It's calming. It's every single emotion I've ever felt balled up into an intense urge to grab hold of her and never let go.

Colleen Hoover

#43. And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.

Arthur Bryant

#44. Publishing a book is great. Dropping a lame pitch on a potential customer and STILL racking up a book sale? Priceless. Or 8 bucks--whichever works best.

Tevin Hansen

#45. I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

Rutina Wesley

#46. I went on Ellen once, and even then, I was just a bad performer. It was nerve-racking at first playing in front of all her fans who really wanted to see her. Her fans are so young and accepting to new people, and it helped that they knew 'Marvin Gaye,' too.

Charlie Puth

#47. Competition can be the most nerve-racking experience. Some people just thrive on it.

Itzhak Perlman

#48. It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

Naomi Watts

#49. My brain was fine, but I did not feel like myself. My body was frail and weak - the person who could run half marathons was a distant memory - and that, too, shapes your identity. Racking back pain can mold an identity; fatigue and nausea can, as well.

Paul Kalanithi

#50. What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

William Law

#51. I know how nerve-racking it is to send someone a piece of yourself and then have to sit back and wait for it to
be judged.

Colleen Hoover

#52. Obama did inherit a deficit when he came into office. Why this fact justifies racking up vastly more debt and bigger deficits is a logical mystery.

Jonah Goldberg

#53. I've been racking my brain. I've been trying to figure out how Bob Dole's luggage got on my airplane ... I told the doctor, I said, 'Look, I'm worried about the next election.' ... A misunderstanding.

Rush Limbaugh

#54. What is more nerve-racking: live comedy or the World Series. SNL

Amy Poehler