Unsettler Quotes

#1. I think it's often assumed that the role of poetry is to comfort, but for me, poetry is the great unsettler. It questions the established order of the mind. It is radical, by which I don't mean that it is either leftwing or rightwing, but that it works at the roots of thinking.

Alice Oswald

#2. there was something intimidating about Harrison. His face in repose looked to me like it was closer to a scowl than to any other expression. It was immediately clear that he was no people pleaser; this was more of a people unsettler.

Carrie Fisher

#3. During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.

Ariel Pink

#4. If only we could see the value of one soul like God does.

George Verwer

#5. The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

Peter L. Bernstein

#6. i want to
stay curled and cosied
and chocolated....forever
in my mother's arms.

Sanober Khan

#7. I have always thought, Mr. Bitts, that a hard man is good to find.

Eloisa James

#8. WHILE A MANS BATTLE against himself is undoubtedly at the heart of golfs abiding appeal, the setting in which it is played is, for most golfers, one of the most wonderful things about it.

Herbert Wind

#9. The meanest girl who dances and dresses becomes something higher when her children look up into her face and ask her questions. It is the only education we have and which they cannot take from us

Olive Schreiner

#10. Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

Hillary Clinton

#11. In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,
in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the 'Johnny Cash Show' on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock n' roll. I watched him, and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing - a beautiful, evil thing.

Nick Cave

#13. I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.

George Foreman

#14. I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.

Geraldine McCaughrean

#15. We've been to the Moon nine times. Why would we fake it nine times, if we faked it?

Charles Duke

#16. Grieving doesn't make you imperfect. It makes you human.

Sarah Dessen