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
Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets
with Magic Johnson watching. [On watching
Independence Day with President Clinton]
?Bill Pullman
He that wrestles with us strengthens
our nerves, and sharpens our skill.
Our antagonist is our helper.
?Edmund Burke
Which fiddle-strings is weakness to
expredge my nerves this night!
?Charles Dickens
One of the symptoms of an approaching
nervous breakdown is the belief that
one's work is terribly important.
?Bertrand Russell
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can
do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent
morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work
slop backwards into today's, and doing
painfully and nervously today what
I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
?J A Spender
Family dinners are more often than not an
ordeal of nervous indigestion,
preceded by hidden resentment and ennui
and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
?M F K Fisher
