Nervous Quotes

• I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • People
  • Way
  • Golf

• Most of my career I've spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.

  

  Kiefer Sutherland
  • Work
  • Career
  • Nervous

• I don't get nervous on a stage; I don't get nervous in interviews. I don't get nervous.

  

  Eva Marie Saint
  • Stage
  • Nervous
  • Interviews

• 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

• 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
  • Trying
  • Heart
  • Pain

• I think in that game it was total domination all the way across the board. I don't know what else to say about it. Everybody who watched it would probably say the same thing. It can happen to anybody in this league, but I also think they're very, very good. We'll be a little nervous about playing them because they kind of overwhelmed us that first time.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Time
  • Good
  • Game

• I meet people who are famous, and it's made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I'm nervous about that. I don't want to become a celebrity.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Fame
  • Lifestyle
  • Realising

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

  

  Michael Socha
  • Always
  • Nervous
  • Watch

• Shooting at a man who is returning the compliment means going into action with the greatest speed of which a man's muscles are capable, but mentally unflustered by an urge to hurry or the need for complicated nervous and muscular actions which trick shooting involves.

  

  Wyatt Earp
  • Speed
  • Complicated
  • Capable

• 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 present tense made him nervous.

  

  William Gibson
  • Made
  • Nervous
  • Tense

• Freedom is when you really get your own powers which are within you. In your central nervous system and in your conscious mind, you must feel the existence of the spirit.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Existence
  • Conscious
  • Nervous

• Well, how cool is that? You're sitting here with two guys playing in a playoff, one guy has just stoned it. He's nervous. I know he's nervous -- he's never won a Tour event -- and he hits a shot and it hits the pin. The crowd went bananas. I mean, how could you not like that.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Cool
  • Crowd
  • Playoff

• Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Night
  • Audience
  • Nervous

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

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Critics
  • Nervous

• You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking!

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Talking
  • Nervous

• I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Writing
  • Home
  • Novel

• I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre district or great theatre, but it's not going to Broadway; it's just a different city.

  

  Todd English
  • Different
  • Feels
  • Cities

• It's created a very real chilling effect among our sources. They've become nervous about talking with us. They don't want their phone numbers associated with us. And government employees who previously routinely talked to us, now won't.

  

  Gary Pruitt
  • Real
  • Government
  • Numbers

• All of my friends went to college and I got a job at Circle Pizza, where I worked for 24 hours. I had to call my mother four times to ask her how to spell Parmesan. I'm not kidding. I was a terrible speller. I think I was really nervous that I somehow didn't feel right out in the world in that way.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Mother

• Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' is my go-to song to pump myself up if I'm having a tough time or if I get really nervous right before a speech.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Song
  • Speech
  • Nervous

• My father was a Party member and he was a pretty high rank military officer under the colonel, junior colonel, I don't know the term. He was a total Stalinist. A bit with a streak of anti-Semitism and very shrewd man, a very kind of nervous man.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Father
  • Party
  • Kind

• Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of every sort of move. Thus, the longer the automaton went on playing game, the more experienced it would become by the accumulation of experimental results. Such a machine precisely represents the acquirement of experience by our nervous organization.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Science
  • Moving
  • Player

• If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

  

  Anna Olson
  • Plan
  • Nervous
  • Badly

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