Unsettling Quotes

70 quotes by 65 authors

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory. — Patricia Hampl
As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and… — Unknown Author
Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable? — Tom Hayden
Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality… — Piper Kerman
Like a cross between Paul Auster'sÂ The Book of IllusionsÂ and Janice Lee'sÂ Damnation,Â The Absolution of Roberto Acestes LaingÂ is at once smart and slyly unsettling. It is expert… — Brian Evenson
It's pretty physically unsettling, living life on a visa. — John Oliver
I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is… — David Lynch
Customer needs have an unsettling way of not staying satisfied for very long. — Karl Albrecht
What I want is an art of equilibrium, of purity and tranquility, free from unsettling or disturbing subjects, so that all those who work with… — Henri
A feat - of access and of passionate and appropriately unsettling political commentary. — Lisa Schwarzbaum
There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the… — Amity Shlaes
You can work, shop, do everything from home, and I find this unsettling. — Patrice Leconte
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term 'still' seems meaningless to… — Greil Marcus
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens
Thinking in terms of risk certainly has its unsettling aspects (...), but it is also a means of seeking to stabilise outcomes, a mode of… — Anthony Giddens
Chevy Stevens is in top form. ALWAYS WATCHING is a tense and twisty exploration of dark memories, hidden pasts, and a place that seems like… — Lisa Unger
The truly unsettling thing about being a woman was needing a man to realise one's full potential — Margaret Way
The worst crime of all would be that a mistake happens and no one talks about it or learns from it. So, as unsettling as… — Sanjay Gupta
You never make all things for all people and can't always pander to the broadest denominator. I keep an eye toward doing the themes that… — Edward Norton
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. — Edith Wharton

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