Nervous Quotes
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Every match that I have, I always feel like I'm more nervous than the last one.
Bayley
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I never get nervous. Baseball consists of two things: hitting and pitching, and we've got both.
Carl Pohlad
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I'd get very nervous and uncomfortable in social situations and the only way I could feel at all normal was, well, to drink my guts out.
Johnny Depp
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It's my first presenting role so I'll be nervous, but it's going to be great fun. I can't wait to sample the food and meet the celebrities. Hopefully I can inject some of my own glamour.
Nicole Appleton
All Saints
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She felt a little nervous about this; 'for it might end, you know,' said Alice to herself, 'in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
Lewis Carroll
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I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.
Bill Clinton
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I didn't say that. I don't know who told him that. So he was nervous about that, and I understand that if that's what he thought.
Larry Miller
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Getting up in front and talking to the people who build my cars is the worst. I get so damn nervous.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
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I'm not scared to take a chance. I'm not scared to go out there on a limb and do something different. If I was nervous, I would probably have done whatever it took to stay back where I left.
Edgerrin James
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
William James
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There are all these awards that you've never heard of, and you get nominated, and suddenly you're at these awards shows, so you really don't care if you win. You really don't. You're going there, you're getting dressed up. And then you get to the awards show, and you sit down. You walk the red carpet. Everybody loves you. It's great. You sit down, and all of a sudden your category comes up, and you get nervous. And it's a complicated emotion, because it's not like you absolutely want to win, but then you don't want to lose.
Viola Davis
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I love getting ready to do a scene, and thinking about it, and talking about it. But the rest of the time, I'm so nervous and obsessed. I'm just tearing my hair out in the trailer. The whole time I'm really tense.
Casey Affleck
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Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don't get nervous for that. I just get excited.
Kevin James
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Anyone who hasn't been nervous, or hasn't choked somewhere down the line, is an idiot.
Cary Middlecoff
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When I see Bin Laden with his AK-47, I got nervous. But what can I do, terrorists aren't fools: they too chose the most reliable guns.
Mikhail Kalashnikov
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I'm never nervous.
Bono
U2
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The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes.
Ray Bradbury
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She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with a nervous toss of her hair, and then again come darkly near and let me feed on her open mouth, while with a generosity that was ready to offer her everything, my heart, my throat, my entrails, I gave her to hold in her awkward first the scepter of my passion.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Unfortunately, the headlights of the car were bright enough for them to see Mae's outfit quite clearly. "Oh my God," said Nick, and shut his eyes. Jamie gave a small, nervous laugh. "What?" Mae demanded. "Alan told us that we were supposed to dress as we truly are!" "And you felt that what you truly are is a Christmas tree with too much tinsel." Nick grinned. "Huh.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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We thought about Thanksgiving, planned for Thanksgiving and talked of Thanksgiving for weeks beforehand, but the evening before the actual day was the best time of all. Then the house seethed with children and dogs, with friends and cooks, and with delightful smells of baking pie, turkey stuffing and coffee. Every time the doorbell rang we put on another pot of coffee and washed the cups and by the time we went to bed we were so nervous and flighty that when accidentally bumped or brushed against, we buzzed and lit up like pin-ball machines.
Betty MacDonald
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I like to do things that challenge me and make me nervous.
Amy Poehler
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I don't mean to make you nervous, but unfortunately I have to.
Eugene Ormandy
