#nerves

The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#actually #confuse #director #gets #nerves

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#body #i #like #more #muscles

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain. ↗

— Harry Vardon

#been #everything #feel #felt #gain

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it. ↗

— Doug Flutie

#because #i #just #like #nerves

I don't like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves. ↗

— Joe Louis

#i #like #money #nerves #quiets

When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #force #imagination #literature

Now, for the first time in my life, I empathize 100 percent with Fluff McFly. My heart is beating at hamster-speed and I am throwing my eyes around the room, looking for some way out. ↗

— Robin Sloan

#humor #nerves #stress #life

In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and men and I'm four feet and a child. Dove, too, is a toy or possibly a dog as I lead her through the throngs of people. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#nerves #men

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man... ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#ethereal #matrimony #men #nerves #prude