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There's something dangerous about what's funny. Jarring and disconcerting. There is a connection between funny and scary. -- Christopher Walken
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state. -- Alexander Pope
My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. -- Pink
The sterile, arid environment created by truly jarring and discordant signage and gargantuan billboards is a turnoff. -- Jonathan Katz
So many shows don't have laugh tracks now that, when you hear it, it can be slightly jarring. -- Casey Wilson
When you spend seven years with a group of people and suddenly you're not together, it's very jarring. -- Poppy Montgomery
If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful. -- Martin Parr
The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face. -- Carter Burwell
The older I get, the less jarring I want my exercise to be, and I find that a long walk is equally as helpful and satisfying as a three-mile jog. -- Kim Cattrall
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look. -- Steven Spielberg
You have to surrender to a book. If you do, when something in it seems to be going askew, you are wounded. The more you have surrendered to a book, the more jarring its errors appear. -- Robert Gottlieb
It's so jarring to go from Baghdad to Cambridge, to go from a place where people are fighting and striving and dying to a place where the biggest concern is what kind of cheese to put in your sandwich. -- Dexter Filkins
During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first. -- Famke Janssen
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. -- Winston Churchill
It's jarring to go from one amazing experience to another that feels ordinary. I don't quite know how to explain it. You see the uniqueness of what you've been doing, and disassociating yourself from it and going back to the 'normal' life is tough. -- Nat Wolff
When neighbours interact with each other, it is only natural that sometimes they will run into problems of some kind or another. As long as they respect each other, properly manage differences, and pursue mutual benefits, there will be harmonious sound instead of jarring noises. -- Li Keqiang
It was jarring to be berated for 'acting white' when I was placed in a predominantly black middle school in Southern California. I was also chubby, into boys who weren't into me, and tried too hard to fit into this 'blackness' I was supposed to be. -- Issa Rae
Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man. -- Dennis Farina
I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse. -- Adam Driver
You must photograph where you are involved; where you are overwhelmed by what you see before you; where you hold your breath while releasing the shutter, not because you are afraid of jarring the camera, but because you are seeing with your guts wide open to the sweet pain of an image that is part of your life. -- Harold Feinstein
It's almost jarring when you go to play a different character, after playing someone for so long. I love it! -- Bridget Regan
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. -- John Milton
Worry is thinking that has turned toxic. It is jarring music that goes round and round and never comes to either climax or conclusion. -- Harold Bridgwood Walker
I think it's quite jarring and exciting when you see someone in the thrall of being completely transported by the music they're sharing with you. -- Justin Adams
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. -- Omar Khayyam
Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone. -- Sheryl Crow
I see in my friends that don't have kids, when they come over, and the amount of times our conversation gets interrupted by my children. It's almost jarring. -- Shannyn Sossamon
Any writer who could handle all these different voices would deserve high praise, but to do so without any sense of jarring or incoherence is an extraordinary accomplishment. -- Philip Kitcher
His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap -- Irving Stone

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