Top Nervous Quotes

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.

Nervous Definition

(a.) possessing nerve; sinewy; strong; vigorous.

(a.) Possessing or manifesting vigor of mind; characterized by strength in sentiment or style; forcible; spirited; as, a nervous writer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; as, nervous excitement; a nervous fever.

(a.) Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed.

(a.) Sensitive; excitable; timid.

They saw me. Milton's smile curled off his face like unsticky tape. And I knew immediately, I was a boy band, a boondoggle, born fool. He was going to pull a Danny Zuko in when Sandy says hello to hi...

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Charlie?''Uh-huh?''Do you like me?''Uh-huh.''You know what I mean?''Uh-huh.''Are you nervous?''Uh-huh.'

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

When they got to their hotel she went straight up to bed, but he paused to get a drink. There was, in the vestibule, a flower stall and he bought a handful of roses, stiffly wired into a bouquet, befo...

I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.

If I am not at 'peace', then I can be altogether confident that I've placed a larger 'piece' of myself in the hands of someone other than God.

Everything makes me nervous - except making films.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

But Robin ...well, she’s OK. We really don’t have much in common, though. I get nervous around people who eat all the time.

I don't know why it is, Captain Short, but whenever you start agreeing with me, I get decidedly nervous.

Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.

A nervous silence loosens tongues

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.

Could he hear my heart pounding?