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Quotes About Discomfort

Everything was cool when I came back running 10.09. Now that I'm running some of the fastest times in history, people are uncomfortable.
~ Justin Gatlin
I don't like when there's too much conversation because I'm shy and it makes me uncomfortable.
~ Rita Rudner
If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
~ Jack Whitehall
There are things that are only palatable until they become uncomfortable for us, so it's very easy to complain about some problem the minute it becomes a problem for you. But you're okay with certain aspects of gentrification if they're the aspects you like.
~ Wyatt Cenac
Talking about racism with white people can make white people very uncomfortable, Black people very uncomfortable.
~ Wunmi Mosaku
The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
~ Mike White
I like putting myself in uncomfortable situations.
~ Nikki Glaser
I still get very uncomfortable and flushed on the street if somebody recognizes me or stops me. I don't know what to say. It's uncomfortable and strange.
~ Alex Borstein
Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
~ Garry Shandling
They are uncomfortable talking about sex because they don't want people to think they know about it.
~ Sue Johanson
The only thing that mattered to me with 'Xen' was setting things up against each other in an uncomfortable way. If there's a really soft piece of music, and then you're hit by a painful explosive sound, your brain does this funny somersault trying to make sense of why this happened. And at that very moment, your brain is malleable.
~ Arca
There are things in low comedy that make people uncomfortable, and there are things in high comedy that make people bored.
~ Lorne Michaels
Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.
~ Sandra Bullock
I don't know about scared, but 'Chernobyl' definitely made me deeply uncomfortable. Almost addictively uncomfortable: don't know what that says about me. But I came to love the tatty Soviet brutalism of it.
~ Alexander Armstrong
Sometimes, discomfort is very uncomfortable. Anybody can get occasionally tired of it, and then it can change fast, where it's comfort that disturbs you.
~ Jim Harrison
On the first season of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' I was constantly uncomfortable with my eyes. It became annoying filming the show and having to turn away every few seconds and put drops in my eye.
~ Kyle Richards
This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me, New York is kind of shoddy and uncomfortable.
~ William Klein
Change is uncomfortable.
~ Kirby Smart
I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.
~ Stockard Channing
I like someone who has a strong personality, who speaks boldly and makes people uncomfortable sometimes.
~ Nikki Tamboli
Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.
~ Charles Frazier
Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition.
~ Daniel Dennett
That's how to make a stand-up comedian: You take a person who is uncomfortable and try to squirrel their way out of it through humor.
~ W. Kamau Bell