Footage of young people getting shot. That bothers me. It hits a nerve.
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!
I don't have principles. I have nerves.
My very first audition was on the lot of Paramount, and I was put on tape and it was very nerve-racking. I think it was about 15 pages.
I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
It is nerve-wracking watching my kids' games.
I used to get a lot of letters from prisoners. It used to get on my nerves. Especially family members. Everybody's innocent.
A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.
The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
I just grate on my own nerves. I don't like to watch me.
I think the rest of the world will think we're made, and indeed we are. We've turned out the greatest Prime Minister in the post war years simply because of short term nerves.
It takes nerves of steel to stay neurotic.
I cannot remember a time when I was not enraptured or tortured by words. Always there have been words which, sometimes for their sound alone, sometimes for their sound and sense, I would not use. From a loathing of their grossness or sickliness, their weight or want of weight. Their inexactitude, their feeling of acidity or insipidity. Their action, not only on the intelligence but on the nerves, was instant.
There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
There's a lot of nerves. It all goes away though once they say "fight".
We don't get too nervous for too may things, but on television a few million people are sitting there watching. Definitely a lot more nerves.
It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.