Disconcerning Quotes & Sayings

Wine is a gateway drug to environmentalism. — Katherine Cole

A philosophical question: if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? And if a woman who's wholly alone occasionally talks to a pot plant, is she certifiable? I think that it is perfectly normal to talk to oneself occasionally. It's not as though I'm expecting a reply. I'm fully aware that Polly is a houseplant. — Gail Honeyman

There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us. — Marilynne Robinson

It is so easy to let life go by us in its swift amusing course, that sometimes it hardly seems worthwhile to attempt any bold strokes for truth. Truth, of course, does not need assistance; it can afford to ignore our errors. But in this quiet place, among the whisper of the trees, I seem to have heard a disconcerning sound. I have heard laughter, and I think it is the laughter of God. — Christopher Morley

Such things and deeds as are not written down are covered with darkness, and given over to the sepulchre of oblivion. — Ivan Bunin

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them. — Elvis Costello

I'd been around other weres and never tasted a single one before Lucas passed me on the street last night. It was more than a little disconcerning. Lucas had told me it was an indication of the soul-bond I shared with him, so why could I taste Desmond? Surely it wasn't possible to be soul-bonded to two people. And why did I suddenly want a margarita? — Sierra Dean

I don't hang out with the Hollywood cool people. I'm not out trying to make friends with people because they're famous. — Jessica Alba

Once you lose someone don't try
to get them back because you'll
never get the person with SAME
feelings about you ! — LATIKA

How protean are the devices available to human intelligence when it lends itself to the persistence of the conformist error. — Robert M. Lindner

Happiness is possible regardless of outside experiences because when you love everything, the need of a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual healing is no longer required. Pure love sees only pure love in its reflection. — Lori Brant

I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I could finance comics myself, I lasted only a little reading superheroes. — Ben Peek

we looked, we saw the people trying to dream themselves out. As though there was someplace other than this place. As though there was another Brooklyn. August, — Jacqueline Woodson

[T]he German censorship forbade or mutilated my every book, which was like sticking pins into my soul ... — Israel Zangwill

In any case, [y]ou can't teach a monkey to speak and you can't teach an Arab to be democratic. You're dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers. Muhammad, their prophet, was a robber and a killer and a liar. The Arab destroys everything he touches. — Moshe Feiglin

Revising while you generate text is like drinking decaffeinated coffee in the early morning: noble idea, wrong time. — Paul J. Silvia