Unnerving Quotes
43 quotes by 37 authors
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(After meeting her birth mother after more than 40 years) We exchange bunches of orchids, laughing at the coincidence of the flowers. A little unnerving:…
— Jackie Kay
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There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten’s prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction.
— Sam Lipsyte
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I love cats. I love their grace and their elegance. I love their independence and their arrogance, and the way they lie and look at…
— Joyce Stranger
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In Sussex Drive, Linda Svendsen takes us deep behind the lines of Ottawa’s politics, polls and pomp, and into the lives of Canada’s two most…
— Terry Fallis
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The terrible thing is that the crowd that fills the street believes that the world will always be the same and that it is their…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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Without our familiar props, we are faced with just ourselves, a person we do not know, an unnerving stranger with whom we have been living…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The kiss. There are all sorts of kisses, lad, from the sticky confection to the kiss of death. Of them all, the kiss of an…
— Ruth Gordon
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In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even…
— Paul Farmer
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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Today we see the steady stream from the countryside to the city, deadly for the Volk. The cities swell ever larger, unnerving the Volk and…
— Alfred Rosenberg
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[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life-the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through…
— Tom Bissell
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The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more…
— Andy Goldsworthy
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Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.
— Timothy Keller
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When I first started out all the attention could be a bit unnerving, especially when people stared. Now I find the best thing is to…
— Tom Cruise
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It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.
— Reeve Carney
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You never go into a marriage expecting to get divorced. You go into a marriage expecting it's going to last forever, and you have a…
— Jenna Fischer
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You know, for an actor to come into the midst of that, it's - It can either be difficult and somewhat unnerving, or it can…
— Keith Carradine
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The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically…
— Mikky Ekko
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As an actor you want people to know you and there are times you want your pictures taken, but it's unnerving to walk out of…
— Ashley Greene
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If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life,…
— Michael Moore
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