Nervous Quotes

• Poetry is the inner life of a culture, its nervous system, its deepest way of imagining the world. A culture that ignores its poets, chokes off its nervous system and becomes mortally ill.

  

  Erica Jong
  • World
  • Culture
  • Poet

• I always get nervous when people start talking about legacies.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Legacies

• I get a bit nervous because I just want the show to go well. I think you always have to be a little bit nervous, or else you're a little checked-out, and that's maybe the time when you're not doing your best stuff, because you're kind of just checked-out and falling back on stuff.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Time
  • Stuff
  • Nervous

• I don't like going on stage. Stages mean "nervous" for me.

  

  Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
  • Mean
  • Going
  • Nervous

• Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

  

  Deborah Grey
  • Nervous
  • Nasty
  • Only

• I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

  

  Ernest Jennings Ford
  • Cat
  • Nervous
  • Rockers

• I'm never nervous.

  

  Bono U2
  • Nervous

• As soon as one of my records goes on, it makes a vast portion of the public nervous. They get spooked by it. To some people who have ears to hear, it's a delightful, refreshing change. But to most of the public, it's a load of homemade-sounding nonsense.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • People
  • Ears
  • Nonsense

• If people want to invade your privacy, they want to invade your privacy. I find it chilling, and I find it awful, and it makes me really nervous. It hasn't happened to me much, but when you have a taste of it, it's bitter.

  

  Ruth Negga
  • Bitter
  • Taste
  • Privacy

• I think the joy of wanting to direct is having that nervous anxiety knowing your film is about to be shown and you're sitting right there with everyone.

  

  Renee O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Anxiety
  • Sitting

• 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
  • Care
  • Winning
  • Emotion

• I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.

  

  Vint Cerf
  • Teach
  • Nervous
  • Stanford

• 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
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Thanksgiving

• The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Succeed

• 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
  • Relationship
  • Audience
  • Excited

• Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. When you're thinking of your listener, that's when you start stuttering and it's just because you're nervous that your listener is passing judgment.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Students

• Even though I'm a believer, I still find it really hard to be around other believers. They make me nervous, they make me twitch. I sorta watch my back.

  

  Bono U2
  • Nervous
  • Watches
  • Believer

• You figure you train all year for this, you're so nervous, so you might as well stand on the ice and enjoy it for more than five seconds. I realize everything I have been through and what I have done, appreciate the audience. It's nice to have just 30 seconds of relief.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Enjoy
  • Nervous
  • Figure

• I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.

  

  Michael Socha
  • Always
  • Watch
  • Nervous

• You're always nervous about what critics say - about what anybody has to say, really.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Critics
  • Nervous

• I get nervous about press and about being rejected or disappointing myself.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Nervous
  • Press
  • Disappointing

• Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Moral
  • Enough
  • Common

• I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

  

  CC Sabathia
  • Feels
  • Pressure
  • Pitching

• 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
  • Car
  • Eye
  • Enough

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