#nerves

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk. ↗

— John Badham

#arms #bed #could #get #head

I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#beginning #chest #chin #could #head

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch. ↗

— W. C. Fields

#bartender #best #case #nerves #scotch

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#game #great #great american #nerves #should

I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well. ↗

— Sidney Crosby

#allow #athlete #bit #care #come

Being unprepared heightens nerves. ↗

— James Galway

#heightens #nerves #unprepared

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#calms #classical #classical music #down #had

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. ↗

— Fritz Kreisler

#accustomed #actually #asleep #cannon #circumstances

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#attention #being #completely #give #heart

My toes are all squished. During an operation, they had to take nerves out. ↗

— Steven Tyler

#had #nerves #operation #out #take