#nerves

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amiable #being #day #destroys #every

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

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

— Henry Cotton

#domination #method #nerves #putting #secret

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 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

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

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

— Joe Louis

#i #like #money #nerves #quiets

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

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