#nervous

The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it! ↗

— Daniel Dennett

#brain #cling #coral #eats #finds

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#breakdown #certainly #edge #gay #i

The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie. ↗

— Louise Bogan

#bourgeoisie #class #exist #fine #flower

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there? ↗

— Neil LaBute

#about #bit #enough #general #go

It's about businesses nervous about taking on school leavers because of a mass of red tape. It's about health and safety regulations and green fines. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#because #businesses #fines #green #health

I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time. ↗

— Kate Bush

#close #couple #difficult #difficult time #having

Your immune cells are like a circulating nervous system. Your nervous system in fact is a circulating nervous system. It thinks. It's conscious. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#circulating #conscious #fact #immune #in fact

There is no fixed physical reality, no single perception of the world, just numerous ways of interpreting world views as dictated by one's nervous system and the specific environment of our planetary existence. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#environment #existence #fixed #interpreting #just

It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience. ↗

— Charlotte Church

#experience #first #got #i #loved

Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset. ↗

— Roald Dahl

#back #breakdown #country #folk #gentle