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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

In our story logic which we're making up, if we're saying he's alive, then like a quadriplegic who's in bed he can move his head and shoulders, but he can't move his arms. If he could just turn on that power to his legs and arms, the nerves could get through and he could walk.

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.

My nerves before a gig got worse; I had terrible bad nerves all the time. Once we started... I was fine.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

The big trick in putting is not method; the secret of putting is domination of the nerves.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

That's the way I like it because there's no time to have nerves about it. You just run out and do it.

Being unprepared heightens nerves.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I have been on the same dose of anti-depressants for 15 years, and my nerves still go up and down in cycles; but my nerves are cycling at a lower level than they were before.

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?