Disconcerting Quotes

46 Disconcerting quotes by 44 unique authors

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack… — Lance Morrow
"Some of the anxiety has been laid to rest. We don't see a spike in adult use. We don't think we see a spike in… — John Hickenlooper
What is the ultimate solution to the origin of the Universe? The answers provided by the astronomers are disconcerting and remarkable. Most remarkable of all… — Robert Jastrow
I think it is funny that we were freer about sexuality in the 4th century B.C. It is a little disconcerting. — Angelina Jolie
It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna. — Rowan Atkinson
Every role I've played, that could've happened. It's nice, it happens, but it is rather disconcerting when a young child comes up to at the… — Michael York
My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is… — Matthew Broderick
It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency. — Penelope Lively
I read in a book that a man called Christ went about doing good. It is very disconcerting to me that I am so easily… — Toyohiko Kagawa
It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences. — Eric Temple Bell
The letters from jail are always disconcerting. — Eliza Dushku
This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal… — Gaston Bachelard
American long for a closed society in which everything can be bought, where laborers are either hidden away or dressed up as nonhumans, so as… — Adam Gopnik
You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of… — Rachel Simmons
It is my dream to create an art which is filled with balance, purity and calmness, freed from a subject matter that is disconcerting or… — Henri Matisse
The trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been… — Maggie Stiefvater
You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact,… — Learned Hand
The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience. — Evelyn Underhill
It was disconcerting for the novel to seem so different when I re-read it. Of course we are a different person each time we open… — Ramona Koval
I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand. — Sophie Ellis Bextor

Who Wrote These Disconcerting Quotes

44 authors contributed a total of 46 Disconcerting Quotes, led by these top contributors: