Top 742 Nerve-Racking Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

He solved at a stroke the great question of the direction of nerve-currents in their travel through brain and spinal cord.

It's definitely more nerve-wracking being in front of the cameras, although I'm trying to get better at it.

The first run in a four-man sled was one of the most nerve-wracking I've had in my life.

So, you're worried that a pink dragon will fly over the concent and fart nerve gas on us?

I'm cooler than a polar bear's toenails... bend corners like I was a curve, I struck a nerve.

Great advertising triggers an emotion in you. It has purpose. It touches a nerve, and that provokes a reaction.

There's something about the lack of certainty with a documentary, which is exhausting if you do three in a row. It's nerve-wracking.

When I do the Led Zeppelin Experience I feel sort of responsible and it's a more nerve-wracking gig.

You can train all you want but when the pressure's on it's a tough situation and anyone who has the nerve to step up and take one has my utmost respect.

I've been in a talent show, yeah. They are terrifying. The most nerve-wracking experience of your life, I'd say.

I have an unfortunate compulsion. I really would rather not do it, as it is very nerve-wracking and un-fun. But when it works, there is nothing like it.

The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve.

I'm not a separatist, I'm friends with some people who voted for Trump, not many. Nobody has the nerve to tell me, but a few have.

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve.

And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

That Newt Gingrich or any mainstream Republican has the nerve to look down from what they perceive as their moral mountaintop at anyone is laughable.

He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty.

I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve.

People throw insults at you, and sometimes they hit a nerve - and it's about not showing that, because they will pick on that. Don't feed the trolls!

I should’ve been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission—the nerve!

You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.

Going to auditions is always so nerve-wracking. I don't think they ever get any easier.

and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you

The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.

As an actor, that's nerve-wracking enough [drunk and doing coke] because you have to do it at the right level.

Everything is nerve-wracking at first. Maybe it's getting older! I don't think I used to be so nervous.

When you're a little kid, you have nerve. I'd walk right up to whoever was recording and say, 'Hey, dude, what's the lick of the week?'

Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Who would attain to summits still and fair,Must nerve himself through valleys of despair.

I've always had a theory that some of us are born with nerve endings longer than our bodies

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

All those people who go around saying Life begins at forty, they're notable by their absence. The nerve.

I pretty much admire anybody who has the discipline and the will to make a career out of fighting. It takes buckets of nerve.

When a man curls his lip, when he uses ridicule, when he grows angry, you have touched a raw nerve in domination.

Well, I have a 24-hour nurse since I have a bit of problem in walking due to a nerve related issue.

I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.

We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us.

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.

What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice.

Life with three daughters can be nerve-wracking, but it's amazing to be loved by so many different women.

It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.

I believe that the Universe is like a single organism, and we are all little nerve endings feeding our experiences back into a whole.

Time to go inward, man, I hope I have the nerve, to take inventory of the causes that I serve.

It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.

Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.

Acting with my parents was nerve-wracking. If they watch me act on the sets I feel nervous and blocked.

We loved Andy, so we wanted to keep him. He was in both bands, but Nerve Agents broke up.

I never thought people would buy the soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, it's a little more nerve-wracking now. I don't know.

Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

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