and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces. . . It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
Fatigue roughens up the edges of your nerves; it exposes your fears and your weaknesses.
It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.
Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation to this day.
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.
I've got enough nerve to do anything!
I think genius can have a lot to do with nerve. And permission.
I definitely feel much more comfortable in front of the cameras after 'The Hills. ' Before, it was much more nerve-racking.
The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to stand in silence-alone and in silence-you have to stand on the naked earth, naked yourself and with nothing around you, as if you were already dead. You don't hear anything at first; the only thing you feel is terror, but then you begin to hear a voice, away in the background, far off; it's a calm voice, and maybe its banality gets on your nerves to begin with.
Let none count themselves wise who have not with the nerves of their imagination felt the pain of the vivisected.
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
You long to jump off, but you just can't work up the nerve, so you tell yourself you're content to look at the view.
I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.
What nerve. Not even a modicum of originality.
Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable.
It's not bad to stand in front of 20,000 people and sing. It's nerve-racking, a huge adrenaline rush, but it's also very exciting, and not many people get to experience that. It's pretty special.