Famous quotes containing the word nervous:
“I cannot exaggerate the waste of the Presidents time and the consumption of his nervous vitality involved in listening to congressmens intercession as to local appointments. Why should the President have to have his time taken up in a discussion over ... who shall be the postmistress of Devils Lake, in North Dakota? How should he be able to know ... who is best fitted to fill such a place?”
—William Howard Taft (18571930)
“He was the finest of our happy men;
He had all joys, he never thought of death;
He fiddled sometimes with his mind, and then
Shook off the tremor like a nervous wren....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Toward education marriage nervous breakdown, operation, teaching
school, and learning to be mad, in a dreamwhat is this
life?”
—Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)