#nerve

I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#bicycle #cause #force #give #give me

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are! ↗

— Charles Dickens

#creatures #little #machine #man #mysteries

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

— Emily Dickinson

#comes #feeling #formal #great #like

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence. ↗

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

#muscle #nerve #omnipotence #prayer #slender

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

I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally - that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet. ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#definitely #done #down #dressed #events

Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#being #bit #else #ever #hate

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

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#men #name #nerves #only #pessimism

With dance, you learn to channel nerves into energy, excited energy. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#dance #energy #excited #into #learn