(268 quotes found)
“You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized that death is something to which we never become calloused.”
Eliot Ness
“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
“Some animals have a lot of nerve - they get caught in my teeth!”
Craig Bruce
“Being unprepared heightens nerves.”
James Galway
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.”
Virginia Woolf
“Nerve gas is not a toy”
Bart Simpson
“It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.”
