A Quote by W. C. Fields

I only drink to steady my nerves... sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.

W. C. Fields

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Drink Months Move Nerves Only Sometimes Steady

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W. C. Fields
American - Comedian
January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946

You say that love is nonsense. I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.

Henry Adams

LeBron's always like this: steady. Steady all the time. He's never forcing anything.

Brandon Ingram

We are seeing a steady improvement in corporate demand. I think it's going to be steady, not explosive, throughout the year.

Kevin B. Rollins

Children can withstand a lot of pressure and trial from the outside if the home inside is held steady by parents whose character is steady.

Stuart Briscoe

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Lauren Bacall

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

Helio Gracie

Preparedness for a game that usually lasts four-five hours requires good physical condition and also steady nerves.

Viswanathan Anand

Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail.

Swami Vivekananda

Dreams must be steady (Sthir). When dreams are steady, they take form of determination (Sankalp) and when you combine them hard-work, they turn into accomplishments (Siddhi)!

Narendra Modi

An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.

Zach Galligan

A breeze blows through the alley, pushing me to one side, and I think of scaling the Ferris wheel with Tobias. He kept me steady then. There is no one left to keep me steady now.

Veronica Roth

When the state of observation is sustained, it changes the quality of your biological structure. The nerves are steady, the chemical system has an equilibrium, and there is relaxation, equipoise. You live in the clarity of knowing who you are.

Vimala Thakar

I could never turn to a guy and a girl and ask, 'Are you going steady?' That was absolutely a no-no - it was the Eisenhower period, and no parent wanted their kid going steady, so it wasn't a thing that you could endorse as proper behavior on the air.

Dick Clark

Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.