Nerve Quotes - page 2

Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert irrevocable tenure there. The opening bars, the hammer-beat accelerando of Edith Piaf's Je ne regrette rien - the text is infantile, the tune stentorian, and the politics which enlisted the song unattractive - tempt every nerve in me, touch the bone with a cold burn and draw me into God knows what infidelities to reason, each time I hear the song, and hear it, uncalled for, recurrent inside me. (George Steiner)
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if. View quote
George Steiner
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it. View quote
Stefan Zweig
If you ever leave me again,' she said, her eyes stinging, ‘I swear to all the gods-‘ Percy had the nerve to laugh. Suddenly the lump of heated emotions melted inside Annabeth. ‘Consider me warned,' Percy said. ‘I missed you, too. View quote
Rick Riordan
A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve. View quote
Rick Riordan
I should've been very cross with Anubis. Kissing me without permission-the nerve! View quote
Rick Riordan
Honestly, I thought I was going to be a kite forever, suffocating inside a little feathery prison. And he had the nerve to make fun! View quote
Rick Riordan
But then, his revenge had been more direct. He'd hunted down the ones who'd killed his sister and nephew – those who'd survived his mother's attack – and he'd made them wish they'd never been born with nerve endings.' (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director) And yet I still can't program my DVD player,' I said." (Max) View quote
James Patterson
I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain. View quote
James Patterson
It's not enough to be nice in life. You've got to have nerve. (Georgia O'Keeffe)
It is not uncommon in modern times to see governments straining every nerve to keep the peace, and the people whom they represent, with patriotic enthusiasm and resentment over real or fancied wrongs, urging them forward to war. View quote
Elihu Root
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve. Never. View quote
Evel Knievel
I'm very shy, and I shy away from people. But the moment I hit the stage, it's a different feeling I get nerve from somewhere; maybe it's because it's something I love to do. View quote
Ella Fitzgerald
You just go on your nerve. View quote
Frank O'Hara
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve. View quote
Alan Ladd
The leadership lost its nerve. Instead of taking the lead in the reform movement... they pulled the plug on it. They tried and are still trying to return the church to the dry ice of the previous century and a half. View quote
Andrew Greeley
And as I started reaching deeper I realized that most of the blues of that day was done by men. Women just didn't have the nerve. View quote
Etta James
We see in the electroencephalogram a concomitant phenomenon of the continuous nerve processes which take place in the brain, exactly as the electrocardiogram represents a concomitant phenomenon of the contractions of the individual segments of the heart. View quote
Hans Berger
I question the political judgement of those who would have the nerve to paint Christ white with his obvious African nose, lips and wooly hair. View quote
John Henrik Clarke
The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives. (Kenny Wormald)
His nerve, his memory, and I can't remember the third thing. View quote
Lee Trevino
The pharmaceutical industry likes to depict itself as a research-based industry, as the source of innovative drugs. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is their incredible PR and their nerve. View quote
Marcia Angell
I wish I had the nerve not to tip. View quote
Paul Lynde
I had a tumor in my left eye which killed the optic nerve, but it's my real eye. I just cannot see out of it. View quote
Sandy Duncan