You get steely nerves playing poker.
I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.
Flannery craved a cigarette. Her nerves were so tense that only nicotine could soothe them, and for the first time, she genuinely understood how the drug worked. It wasn't just a prop or an affectation. It was a tool for mental health.
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think.
Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.
To control your nerves, you must have a positive thought in your mind.
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.
At the simplicity of the gesture, he felt a pang: the raw nerve of his loneliness exposed.
I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.
Dancing is imperatively needed to give poise to the nerves, schooling to the emotions, strength to the will, and to harmonize the feelings and the intellect with the body that supports them
I think I opened up an area with Astral Weeks that hit a lot of peoples' nerves. But you can't really say that they're my favorite songs.
You have to control the nerves. I used to get so nervous that I couldn't eat, which wasn't really productive. Having goals and a plan is a good way of lessening the nerves.
The stage is the place I feel comfortable - it's almost as if real life is where I feel most nervous. Conversations are a lot more nerve-wracking.
It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.
Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw.