200+ Quotes about Nervousness & Sayings about Feeling Nervous

Quotes About Nervousness

  • “Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.” —S.R. Ford
  • “To show his nervousness was not shameful; only to admit it.” —Ernest Hemingway
  • “I was never nervous. That’s not me, … Nervousness, scariness, that’s not even in our vocabulary.” —Vince Young
  • “Nervousness made her feel nauseous, almost like she had two hearts frantically beating in her chest, instead of one.” —Caroline Hanson
  • “I don’t feel like I ever really do get past the nervousness. I’m always nervous. Something about being nervous keeps you on the edge, and I’ve always felt like I worked better under pressure.” —Judith Hill

Feeling Nervous Quotes

  • “Before every performance I feel nervous.” —Diego Boneta
  • “When you feel nervous, recall your pride.” —Toba Beta
  • “I don’t feel nervous or fearful when I’m on stage.” —Neko Case
  • “You do feel kind of nervous about any film you take on.” —Guy Pearce
  • “I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.” —Paloma Faith
  • “That nervous feeling when you think about that certain someone and how you’re about to see them soon.” —Anonymous
  • “I’m very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.” —Mark Ruffalo
  • “I’m excited, happy, nervous, anxious, all those feelings about playing for the Jets again. If I didn’t have high expectations, I wouldn’t come back here.” —Vinny Testaverde
  • “The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin’ nervous it can make you feel.” —Gabrielle Reece
  • “When you feel afraid or nervous to do a thing then do it because the real harm which you may thus receive is less poignant than its expectation and fear.” —Ali bin Abu-Talib
  • “I like the performing part, it gives me a huge rush but it still makes me nervous. Being in front of large crowds is intimidating to me and I feel myself withdrawing.” —Torrie Wilson
  • “I will talk about it on Monday. I will answer every one of their questions. I always feel nervous when I have to go to court. This is like going to court. But I will be prepared.” —Zulima Farber

Famous Quotes about Nervousness

  • “Nervous people tend to overreact.” —Toba Beta
  • “A nervous silence loosens tongues.” —Jacqueline Carey
  • “Time flies when you are anxious!” —Maria Bamford
  • “Butterflies in your stomach. More like killer bees.” —Kami Garcia
  • “If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.” —Miles Davis
  • “The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.” —Shana Alexander
  • “If you’re not nervous, it means you don’t care.” —Tiger Woods
  • “The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.” —Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • “To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil.” —Pearl Bailey
  • “A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” —Alexander Hamilton
  • “The way to secure success is to be more anxious about obtaining than about deserving it.” —William Hazlitt
  • “You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you.” —Dan Millman
  • “I’m a very anxious, nervy kind of loser in many ways, and I get very stressed and a little tense.”
  • “One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.” —Bertrand Russell
  • “Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.” —Mary Beth McKenzie
  • “Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.” —Adriana Lima
  • “A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.” —Art Buchwald
  • “Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in your stomach and get the juices flowing.” —Taryne Mowatt
  • “Sometimes when you’re just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.” —Lara Flynn Boyle

Nervous Quotes About Love

  • “When you love others you aren’t nervous.” —Mary Martin
  • “I love to be nervous before a scene.” —Kim Basinger
  • “I’m not a very good lover. I’m so nervous about my sexuality.” —Anna Faris
  • “Am I nervous? Yeah. Am I scared? Sure. But I do this because I love it.” —Cat Zingano
  • “It’s unthinkable not to love -you’d have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you’d have to be Philip Larkin.” —Lawrence Durrell
  • “It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.” —Henry Adams
  • “Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).” —Georges Bataille
  • “I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get.” —Busy Philipps
  • “I mean, we did feel nervous, starting out, but I wouldnt say it was hard. We just did what we loved and thankfully it worked out for the best.” —Hayley Williams
  • “I definitely loved going on stage, I loved the nervous feeling and the performance and the doing-ness of it. It always felt kind of natural and inevitable and logical.” —Sean Astin
  • “I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous.” —Vaslav Nijinsky

Inspirational Quotes About Nervousness

  • “It is normal to be nervous.” —James Galway
  • “You can’t control things by being nervous …” —Tina Fey
  • “I don’t think you’re human if you don’t get nervous.” —Sidney Crosby
  • “Sometimes when I’m nervous, that’s when the most interesting things happen.” —Chelsea Peretti
  • “Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.” —Michael Jordan
  • “You see, with me, when I’m nervous, I smile and laugh.” —Paula Radcliffe
  • “I’ve never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.” —Andy Murray
  • “A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.” —Alexander Hamilton
  • “I respect what I do deeply. I don’t get nervous to the point of fear.” —Nik Wallenda
  • “My smile wavers as I revert to my natural state of being: nervous and weird.” —Stephanie Perkins
  • “It is a very positive event, being nervous. It allows you to do great things.” —Tom Kite
  • “I’m usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they’re not cool or something?” —Tom Cruise

Being Nervous Quotes

  • “Being nervous is a waste of time.” —Lindsey Wixson
  • “Being nervous actually kept me very tense.” —Kate Bush
  • “Being nervous isn’t always the worst thing for me.” —Danica Patrick
  • “Being unprepared makes me nervous. I’m old-fashioned show folk.” —John C. Reilly
  • “I didn’t like the nervous tension of being a public person.” —Andrew Denton
  • “Being nervous isn’t bad. It just means something important is happening.” —Michael Jordan
  • “Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?” —Lisi Harrison
  • “I was very nervous about the accent. I was very nervous about being an American.” —Janet McTeer
  • “You’re making me nervous by being so weird. But your weirdness is what I like about you.” —Jaclyn Moriarty
  • “Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.” —Yannick Noah
  • “Being nervous when talking in front of a lot of people. Sweaty hands, shaky voice, forgetting what your about to say.” —Anonymous
  • “Being nervous is not something you should be ashamed of. Nervous means you care, you really want to do well.” —Paula Creamer
  • “Being steeped in the process of learning and exploring keeps me from becoming too nervous. Partly it’s about not getting bored.” —Renee Fleming
  • “I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.” —Lionel Blue
  • “In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.” —Carl Rogers
  • “I remember that Jack Lemmon, who is one of my favorite actors of all time, says that the day he stops being nervous is the day he should leave the business.” —Kim Basinger

Short Nervous Quotes

  • “I’m nervous whenever I perform.” —Adele
  • “This guy makes coffee nervous.” —Bobby Heenan
  • “Talking’s just a nervous habit.” —Martha Grimes
  • “Coaches do get very nervous.” —Urban Meyer
  • “Be very nervous of the shaky hands.” —Ja Rule
  • “I’m always nervous when I perform anyway.” —Jarvis Cocker
  • “I am too nervous to eat pie.” —Raymond Carver
  • “Pressure is calming to the nervous system.” —Temple Grandin
  • “They’re all… looking… a little… nervous right now.” —Davina McCall
  • “Only when you’re nervous do you get nasty.” —Deborah Grey
  • “When I get nervous, I get word vomit.” —Dreama Walker
  • “Of course you’re nervous going into a final.” —Li Na
  • “I don’t know. I’m really really really nervous.” —Nadine Coyle
  • “I was so nervous before going out there.” —Natasha Kaplinsky
  • “I never got nervous performing my own material.” —Wiz Khalifa
  • “A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced.” —Ambrose Bierce
  • “If it makes you nervous- you’re doing it right.” —Donald Glover
  • “The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.” —Edward Dyson
  • “If I don’t train enough, of course I’m nervous.” —Haile Gebrselassie
  • “I’m nervous when taking part in any movie.” —Jamie Campbell Bower
  • “If you’re not nervous then you’re not paying attention.” —Miles Davis
  • “I very rarely get nervous as an actor. Very rarely.” —Corin Nemec
  • “The earth has grown a nervous system, and it’s us.” —Daniel Dennett
  • “Look to the nervous system as the key to maximum health.” —Galen
  • “Your nervous system can’t tell real failure from imagined failure.” —Maxwell Maltz
  • “I’m not big with an audience; I get very nervous.” —Sherilyn Fenn
  • “I get nervous before everything – dates, filming, awards shows.” —Taylor Lautner
  • “I think every English actor is nervous of a Newcastle accent.” —Alan Rickman
  • “There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.” —Anna Wintour
  • “Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.” —B.K.S. Iyengar
  • “I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.” —Billy Bob Thornton
  • “I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.” —Dontrelle Willis
  • “I think I’m nervous to sign on to any job.” —Jamie Campbell Bower
  • “It’s funny, I get really nervous when I audition for voiceovers.” —Julie Benz
  • “I was very nervous at the beginning of Hotel du Nord.” —Marcel Carne
  • “If you go to a game nervous, you make a mistake.” —Miguel Cabrera
  • “I get nervous for any competition. I also get really competitive.” —Morena Baccarin
  • “If you become president, you’re guaranteed to develop some nervous habit.” —Rich Little
  • “You should go to work every day a little bit nervous.” —Alexa Von Tobel
  • “I’m nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments.” —Bernhard Langer
  • “Part of the problem is that he lacks confidence. He is nervous.” —Charles Clarke
  • “Tense and nervous are not the words, though they are the words.” —Chris Kamara
  • “Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.” —Fannie Hurst
  • “I don’t like meat from the grocery store, it makes me nervous.” —Jase Robertson
  • “The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.” —Julianna Margulies
  • “I don’t really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.” —Logan Henderson
  • “I know what it’s like to be pregnant and nervous and poor.” —Loretta Lynn
  • “I’m a shy person, so I get really nervous going into interviews.” —Skylar Grey
  • “When I’m nervous, I stutter, and I had to keep stopping and starting.” —Amy Winehouse
  • “You can tell how nervous I am by how fast I am talking.” —Catherine Deneuve
  • “I get nervous when I fly; I’m used to walking with my feet.” —Jack Johnson
  • “I like ties but I prefer not to wear one when I’m nervous.” —Jamie Oliver
  • “I’m always working. If I’m not in my studio I become quite nervous.” —Jeff Koons
  • “The best advertising should make you nervous about what you’re not buying.” —Mary Wells Lawrence
  • “I have to learn from Sehwag how to play in the nervous 90’s.” —Sachin Tendulkar
  • “I wasn’t as nervous as I thought I would be when I started.” —Todd Barry
  • “When a performer doesn’t get nervous, that is when you have to give up.” —Bruce Forsyth

Nervous Quotes and Sayings about Feeling Nervous

  • “We were very nervous at the start, we didn’t play our game at all.” —Claudio Ranieri
  • “I think writers like old cities and are made very nervous by new cities.” —Donald Barthelme
  • “The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.” —Learned Hand
  • “I never experienced getting nervous on stage. I think I was most comfortable there.” —Misty Copeland
  • “I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.” —Andy Gibb
  • “I was definitely nervous turning up on my first day to shoot with Woody Allen.” —Ashley Madekwe
  • “I just said to myself, She’s just like you, you know, she can be nervous.” —Elena Dementieva
  • “We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.” —Julian Jaynes
  • “I can’t say I don’t get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.” —Liz Phair
  • “He’s too nervous to kill himself. He wears his seat belt in a drive-in movie.” —Neil Simon
  • “I get very antsy and nervous if I don’t know what the next job is.” —Sam Neill
  • “I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.” —Thia Megia
  • “I come from the bush … where men are men, and the sheep are nervous.” —Tommy Emmanuel
  • “Every single night I’m nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.” —Vivien Leigh
  • “God’s never as nervous about our future, or as concerned about our past, as we are.” —Bob Goff
  • “Sensory perception is the silken web that binds our separate nervous systems into the encompassing ecosystem.” —David Abram
  • “I’ve always been full of nervous energy, but I’m not really as happy as I seem.” —Loretta Lynn
  • “Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.” —George Crumb
  • “I’ve never been more nervous in my life than singing the national anthem at the Super Bowl.” —Kelly Clarkson
  • “Most of my career I’ve spent really nervous. Just about work, getting work and having it in.” —Kiefer Sutherland
  • “With a suit, even if you’re having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you’re in charge.” —Paul Feig
  • “English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.” —Robert A. Heinlein
  • “I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!” —Tennessee Ernie Ford
  • “There are so many rules about play writing. I’d have a nervous breakdown if I followed them.” —Terrence McNally
  • “You can always tell a great painting, because when you get close there are all these nervous marks.” —Damien Hirst
  • “I still get nervous when I have a lot of makeup on, a big hairdo, and a dress.” —Jenna Fischer
  • “The more prepared I am, the more I’ll be in control, less nervous, less stressed and more focused.” —Marilu Henner
  • “Yeah, but if I don’t start my nervous pacing now, I’ll never have it all done in time.” —Scott Lynch
  • “I don’t want to work with someone who’s nervous, I want to work with someone who is fearless.” —Susan Stroman
  • “I was very nervous, excited, and happy to be given the opportunity to even be in the major leagues.” —Bengie Molina
  • “I’m sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.” —Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • “I can’t avoid writing. It’s a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint.” —Clare Boothe Luce
  • “I can’t do talk shows, I don’t do them, just because I get really nervous and fidgeting and shaky.” —Devon Sawa
  • “Americans are nervous; Americans are restless; and what troubles me the most is that Americans are uncharacteristically pessimistic.” —Joni Eareckson Tada
  • “I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don’t they?” —Mark Z. Danielewski
  • “As you get older, the more you know, so the more nervous you become. The risks are much bigger.” —Paul Scofield
  • “And people are just people, they shouldn’t make you nervous. The world is everlasting, its coming and its going.” —Regina Spektor
  • “I was very nervous about going up to teach at Stanford and very nervous even about going to ARPA.” —Vinton Cerf
  • “The biggest trouble with success is that its formula is just about the same as that for a nervous breakdown.” —John Holmes
  • “The bigger the show, the better I’d play. It was what I was waiting for, and I’d never get nervous.” —Johnny Ramone
  • “I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight as in school, but I get nervous on test.” —Mary-Kate Olsen
  • “Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.” —Dan Rooney
  • “I never work with an audience – I can’t do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.” —Frank Auerbach
  • “If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.” —Gertrude Stein
  • “Anyone who tells you they’re not nervous playing on the CMAs stage, I’m afraid they’re not telling you the whole story.” —Hunter Hayes
  • “When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.” —John von Neumann
  • “I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.” —Corey Haim
  • “When I do these interviews, I get really nervous. And when I get nervous, it comes off as mellow for some reason.” —Jack Johnson
  • “If I’m with a group of people, I’m okay, but actually I’m quite a nervous person if I’m just one-to-one with somebody.” —Jenna Coleman
  • “One of the biggest things I learned was that it’s OK to be nervous and admit that you’re having a hard time.” —Samuel Larsen
  • “When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, ‘I may be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.’” —Zhang Jinjing
  • “I’m always nervous before I go on stage, but once I’m out there everything is great and it’s my favorite place to be.” —Christina Aguilera
  • “It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.” —Eric Kandel
  • “If you’re not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don’t have the expectations of yourself that you should have.” —Hale Irwin
  • “Just me onstage with a mike having an intimate relationship with the audience. I don’t get nervous for that. I just get excited.” —Kevin James
  • “The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.” —Michael Gazzaniga
  • “I was nervous. I mean, I’d met the Beatles, and Elvis, and everybody, but this was Salvador Dalí . This was like my history.” —Alice Cooper
  • “Innate directs its vital energy through the nervous system to specialize the coordination and sensation and volition through the cumulative and vegetative functions.” —Daniel D. Palmer
  • “There are other things that contribute to health besides a balanced diet. There are fresh air and sunlight and lack of nervous tension.” —Louise Dickinson Rich
  • “I can’t say I’m not nervous at all with media and doing speeches, but I’m getting used to it and better at it, hopefully.” —Lydia Ko
  • “That was awesome. I wasn’t expecting it and when I got the call I got nervous for a second. But I was just really excited.” —Charline Labonte
  • “Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom.” —George Orwell
  • “Medically speaking, there is no such thing as a nervous breakdown. Which is very annoying to discover when you’re right in the middle of one.” —Marian Keyes
  • “It’s nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.” —Shirley Hazzard
  • “A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.” —Art Buchwald
  • “I’m an incurable optimist and a go-getter – it’s in my nature to focus much more on what makes me happy than what makes me nervous.” —Demi Moore
  • “Mike Topp is a disablingly funny writer.” —a miniaturist of nervous precisions, our supreme abridger of metropolitan startlement and inner fidgetry. He dazes and graces us.” —Gary Lutz
  • “Ole Golly: You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.” —Louise Fitzhugh
  • “There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.” —Alain de Botton
  • “It’s the only time that I’m ever nervous on stage, is when we’re doing live TV. Especially an awards show, because I know you can’t fix it.” —Jason Aldean
  • “I think I’ve always been fine on stage – though I get nervous beforehand. But once I’m on stage, all of that goes out of the window.” —Rita Ora
  • “I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I’m in, I can take the reins and go. It’s just the initial approach I’m really bad at.” —Jensen Ackles
  • “Once you get into the groove of things and in the mood you are usually fine; it is before the event that you get nervous and irritable.” —John Gallagher, Jr.
  • “Sometimes when you’re just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.” —Lara Flynn Boyle
  • “Women without men are usually nervous. … The important thing is to have a man, even if you just like him. Pleasing him, you will please yourself.” —Sheilah Graham Westbrook
  • “I meet people who are famous, and it’s made me realise that fame has huge lifestyle disadvantages. I’m nervous about that. I don’t want to become a celebrity.” —Tom Hollander
  • “Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one’s own nervous system.” —Arthur Koestler
  • “The psychological basis of the metropolitan type of individuality consists in the intensification of nervous stimulation which results from the swift and uninterrupted change of outer and inner stimuli.” —Georg Simmel
  • “All in all, the framers would probably agree that it’s better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can’t be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.” —Joseph Sobran
  • “Physiology seeks to derive the processes in our own nervous system from general physical forces, without considering whether these processes are or are not accompanied by processes of consciousness.” —Wilhelm Wundt
  • “Further study of central nervous action, however, finds central inhibition too extensive and ubiquitous to make it likely that it is confined solely to the taxis of antagonistic muscles.” —Charles Scott Sherrington
  • “In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it’s the one.” —Paul Harvey
  • “Our whole family thrives under pressure. It’s like our family motto or something. Apart from my brother Peter, of course. He had a nervous breakdown. But the rest of us.” —Sophie Kinsella
  • “I have a teacher friend who gets nervous when there’s $200 in her account. But at least she knows that in a week, she’ll get another paycheck. I have no idea.” —Gaby Hoffmann
  • “I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast – especially Dave Foley – so I think I did a terrible job.” —Janeane Garofalo
  • “There’s five cameras, I don’t know how many people in the audience… depending on where we’re taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous.” —Vanna White
  • “As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.” —Ivan Pavlov
  • “You know, after the film I said to myself, “It’s a good thing you were so stupid not to be nervous. If I’d been nervous, it would have ruined the whole thing.” —Pia Zadora
  • “I’m always nervous before a job! I always think I’m going to be fired, I always think I can’t do it. I always think I’m going to disappoint somebody, myself included.” —Sarah Jessica Parker
  • “I just don’t want to repeat the same thing over and over again, so I’m always looking for something that’s going to be challenging and make me nervous every time I start a project.” —Logan Lerman
  • “In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets’ nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.” —Al Alvarez
  • “What I absolutely can’t do is just sit around that drives me crazy. I go nuts! I’m far too nervous, too high strung to sit around. It’s not my thing; I can’t deal with it!” —Jonathan Davis
  • “I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.” —Hiroyuki Sanada
  • “One time I was hanging out with a girl and I wanted to kiss her. I was too nervous to do it, so I wrote ‘Can I kiss you?’ on a Post-It and handed it to her. And it worked.” —Dave Franco
  • “The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.” —Peggy Noonan
  • “[I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.” —William DeVries
  • “But that day I was anxious. I was nervous and worried, uneasy and distracted. I paced around and never felt settled. I didn’t care for the sensation, yet I realized it was possibly a natural progression of my evolving soul, and therefore I tried my best to embrace it.” —Garth Stein

Quotes About Overcoming Nervousness

  • There’s an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don’t know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.” —Fred Durst