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It's frightening and unnerving to watch a stone melt. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving. -- Orlando Bloom
It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air. -- Reeve Carney
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
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
What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night. -- Chris Hardwick
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
It's sometimes unnerving to think of that, and I wish it were possible for all children in the world to have the good fortune I've had in having a giving and loving family. -- James MacArthur
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
Every time I was driving on the L.A. freeway in a small car, it was very unnerving for me. One time I rented an SUV, and it just changed my whole perspective of driving, and I was converted to SUVs from that day on. -- Lauren Lee Smith
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
Well, any time you're faced with fame on that level, it's - it can be somewhat unnerving because you're never taught how to manage it and how to deal with it. So you're sort of left out there on your own, trying to navigate those waters for yourself. -- Jason Priestley
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
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
If the guy out in the woods with the Michigan Militia is a real estate negotiator, instead of some crackpot, and has a normal life, that's unnerving. You don't want to think it's as normal as the guy next door, hedging his lawn. It's easier to demonize or separate them off from 'us.' -- Michael Moore
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
The enemy is never more unnerving than when he's invisible. -- K.J. Parker
It's unnerving how you fit in the basin of my thighs. -- Audrey Rey
Isn't it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do "practice"? -- George Carlin
Nature, for me is raw and dangerous and difficult and beautiful and unnerving. -- Andy Goldsworthy
When silence is a choice, it is an unnerving presence. When silence is imposed, it is censorship. -- Terry Tempest Williams
There are few things under heaven more unnerving than the silent, accumulating contempt and hatred of a people. -- James A. Baldwin
It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously. -- Bill Bryson
Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him. -- Timothy Keller
There is nothing quite like the controlled burn of Eugene Marten's prose. Waste is an exhilarating and unnerving piece of fiction. -- Sam Lipsyte
Much modern art is, at first sight, unnerving... in the contemporary world, we have come to expect instant response and immediate understanding. -- Nicholas Serota
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From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium. -- Pat Forde
Jennifer [Lawrence] is amazingly grounded in the midst of all this to do. It must be unnerving and hard to relate to the amount of attention she generates. -- Toby Jones
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
It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. -- Daniel Handler
The wizards represent all that the true 'muggle' most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit! -- J. K. Rowling
In an age of explosive development in the realm of medical technology, it is unnerving to find that the discoveries of Salk, Sabin, and even Pasteur remain irrelevant to much of humanity. -- Paul Farmer

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