Famous quotes containing the words nerve and/or pinch:
“Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce great poetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“There cannot be a pinch in death
More sharp than this is.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)