#nerves

Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves." "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least. ↗

— Jane Austen

#hysteria #irony #nerves #sarcasm #respect

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #feeling #formal #great #like

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000. ↗

— Jennifer Tilly

#blow #buys #furniture #house #i

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#alone #body #brain #dream #every

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine. ↗

— John Bonham

#before #fine #gig #got #had

Let me be accurate in everything, for though you and I have seen some strange things together, you may at the first think that I, Van Helsing, am mad. That the many horrors and the so long strain on nerves has at the last turn my brain. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#am #brain #everything #first #horrors

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. ↗

— George Lopez

#awful #because #bottle #calm #character

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore. ↗

— Amelie Mauresmo

#anybody #anymore #definitely #i #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