#nerves

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. ↗

— Herbert Gold

#boils #brought #careers #demands #edge

I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me. ↗

— Megan Fox

#just #like #me #my own #nerves

We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves. ↗

— Dave Haywood

#few #get #lot #may #million

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

--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

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves. ↗

— Henry Cotton

#domination #method #nerves #putting #secret

There are movements which impinge upon the nerves with a strength that is incomparable, for movement has power to stir the senses and emotions, unique in itself. ↗

— Doris Humphrey

#impinge #incomparable #itself #movement #movements

Sensation is not the conduction of a quality or state of external bodies to consciousness, but the conduction of a quality or state of our nerves to consciousness, excited by an external cause. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#cause #consciousness #excited #external #nerves

I was nervous. Like an ice cube, I just froze up. Then I melted in some strange guy’s drink.
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— Jarod Kintz

#alcohol #bizarre #drink #freeze #froze