Top 742 Nerve-Racking Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

Magnus, I wish I had the nerve to wear the kind of pants you do.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.

'Thelma & Louise' really hit a nerve, and I loved that movie.

The nerve. Threatening you and not being precise about it.

There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

If I'd had the nerve, I'd have become a thief or a gangster, but since I didn't, I became a photographer.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.

I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve

The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.

If people don't like you, it doesn't matter how much uniqueness, nerve or talent you have!

A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed.

I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

I've played the Royal Albert Hall to 8,500 people, and there wasn't a nerve in my body.

It can be a little nerve-wracking sometimes feeling like I have to do more than I really do.

It's nice to play new songs, but it's nerve-wracking.

The future should be exciting, you know? It shouldn't be a nerve-wracking experience.

At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.

The meek shall inherit the earth. They won't have the nerve to refuse it.

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at our own game or in racking my brains over what could possibly constitute a contribution when novels pale before the newspaper.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

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.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

Do not taste food while you're cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it.

Im a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve.

A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve.

My first experience playing for England was very scary and nerve wracking.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

It's nerve wracking being in the stadium with so many people supporting.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

It is extremely satisfying when you finish a script, but the process of it can be just nerve-wracking.

I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin

Why had he never appreciated the miracle that he was, brain and nerve and bounding heart?

I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.

You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.

As the titanic losses were racking up, Fannie Mae's operators, Franklin Raines and Jamie Gorelick, disguised the catastrophe by orchestrating a $5 billion accounting fraud - all the while continuing to pressure banks to make absurd, politically correct loans and denouncing Republicans as enemies of the poor.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

I was really excited about 'Nerve' with Dave Franco and Emma Roberts.

I wish that the act of publishing a book was less of a nerve-wracking experience.

We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.

I'm scared. Seeing my life being told in a movie. That is nerve-wracking.

I know that some people who move into film lose their nerve for the stage.

Parenting is much more nerve-wracking than 'Jeopardy!'

Every nerve that can thrill with pleasure, can also agonize with pain.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.

It can be nerve wracking if you walk into the interview and you're not sure what to expect.

I want to accomplish some things on the beach that I haven't been able to before, such as being a part of the best team on the beach in any given summer, racking up the most wins in any given summer.

When you premiere somewhere like Cannes, it's huge. It's nerve-wracking.

At the core of the risk-free society is a self-indulgent failure of nerve.