Most Unnerving Quotes

#1. In retrospect, the most unnerving aspect of being openly gay was that it turned out to be as disappointingly normal as being straight.

Lance Loud

#2. 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 actress is the most unnerving. How can we tell if she means it or if she's just practicing? ...

Ruth Gordon

#3. 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 just relax. Being recognized is just something you have to get used to.

Tom Cruise

#4. Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.

Abhishek Bachchan

#5. We need to walk into the future, no matter how unnerving, with open eyes if society is to keep pace with technology.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#6. Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving ... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding.

Nicholas Serota

#7. But, in fact, impermanence is like some of the people we meet in life - difficult and disturbing at first, but on deeper acquaintance far friendlier and less unnerving than we could have imagined.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#8. It's comforting when God lets you get away with something once in a while.

And a little unnerving. You start to wonder what he's got set up for you next and why he's softening you up, like.

Elizabeth Bear

#9. No matter how different our First Ladies have been - and as individual women they have ranged from recluses to vibrant hostesses to political manipulators on a par with Machiavelli - they have all shared the unnerving experience of facing a job they did not choose.

Margaret Truman Daniel

#10. I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.

Elaine Paige

#11. Ursula, we have to talk ... ' he said, almost blurting. He couldn't believe he was in the "we have to talk" position. It was so unnerving. 'I have to ask you ... Let's be each other's emergency contact numbers.' This was his first concession towards commitment.

Sharon Weil

#12. Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"?

George Carlin

#13. Lorth spoke a word and came into focus, though he had learned from experience that his features, the ghost-pale skin of a Northman with the gold-green eyes of a wolf, were almost as unnerving to a Tarthian as the shadowy form of a cloaking spell.

F.T. McKinstry

#14. It's both comforting and unnerving to learn that the most important person in your life may be someone you haven't met yet.

Chandler Baker

#15. In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.

Al Burian

#16. Perhaps Obama is often slow to nail controversies because he needs time to live inside them for a while in his head. It's unnerving for the rest of us, but even the haters, one feels, are made to think more deeply than they'd like before they return to the bickering and the games.

Tina Brown

#17. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Bill Bryson

#18. When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship.

Terry Tempest Williams

#19. He left as silently as he'd come. Pierre LaManche favored crepe-soled shoes, kept his pockets empty so nothing jangled or swished. Like a croc in a river he arrived and departed unannounced by auditory cues. Some of the staff found it unnerving.

Kathy Reichs

#20. I'm okay. It's exciting, and a little unnerving - but in a really cool way. Why are you so calm?"
"You sucked in all the excitment.

Nora Roberts

#21. 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 all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.

Mikky Ekko

#22. God, help me. Help me to be wise and full of courage and sound judgment. Harden my heart to the sights that I must see so soon again, grant me only the power to think clearly, boldly, resolutely, no matter how unnerving the peril. Let me not fail them.

Anton Myrer

#23. It was unnerving, the way people moved in herds. Especially when you were the prey.

Chris Russell

#24. Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

Timothy Keller

#25. Never have I heard anything so unnerving as a hardened warrior praying to a god known for his merciless heart.

Robin Hobb

#26. I'm worried about people who say Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he believes: that it's his mission to change the Middle East into a democracy. That's more unnerving.

Seymour Hersh

#27. I've never signed a contract, so never have a deadline. A deadline's an unnerving thing. I just finish a book, and if the publisher doesn't like it, that's his privilege.

Marchette Chute

#28. 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 lot of ways you dream about the future. You have all these expectations, and then you have to adjust those expectations, and it can be a very unnerving, confusing time.

Jenna Fischer

#29. It was unnerving, to think she was being psychoanalyzed by someone who frequently complained that the castle walls had started bleeding again.

Marissa Meyer

#30. I shivered as the cold was all encompassing, not just from being outdoors, but from being read as well. He had a way of seeing through me. It was as unnerving as it was bonding and I couldn't figure out how the two could co-exist.

Donna Lynn Hope

#31. 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 unnerving than a break.

Andy Goldsworthy

#32. Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving.

Andy Goldsworthy

#33. There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people.

James Baldwin

#34. So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their toes, sapping the foundations upon which they stood, a sensation both agreeably stilmulating and sightly unnerving

David Lodge

#35. Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.

Orlando Bloom

#36. It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt.

Andy Goldsworthy

#37. 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 a venue with friends and there are 20 people flashing lights in your face. Do you know how bright those lights are?

Ashley Greene

#38. It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.

Reeve Carney