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Quotes About Disturb

Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
~ Barbra Streisand
In evil times, when public virtue has left the earth, ancient writings are of little account, and no one cares to disturb the silence of the libraries.
~ Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau
I don't want to see religious bigotry in any form. It would disturb me if there was a wedding between the religious fundamentalists and the political right. The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.
~ Billy Graham
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
~ Franklin P. Jones
The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered. These same questions that disturb and puzzle and confound us have in their turn occurred to all the wise men; not one has been omitted; and each has answered them, according to his ability, by his words and his life. Moreover, with wisdom we shall learn liberality.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.
~ Barbra Streisand
We already knew how much there was; it was splashed all over the evening papers in large, glaring headlines: 'Bank robbers grab £67,500!' 'Biggest bank robbery ever!' 'Daring bandits escape with huge sum!' Take your pick; it all made lurid reading. According to the press the police were closing in on the raiders and their arrest was imminent. I got up and put the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the door - that should stop them!
~ Stephen Richards
Now people who keep fish disturb me the most, if I'm totally honest. They always smell a bit like fish food and they know just a bit too much about eels.
~ Claudia Winkleman
gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while, finding no response, I
~ Bram Stoker
Let the stillness be, High Lord. Do not disturb it. If you are able, listen to its voice—but let it be.
~ Terry Brooks
Beware the dark pool at the bottom of our hearts. In its icy, black depths dwell strange and twisted creatures it is best not to disturb.
~ Sue Grafton
Emotions follow thoughts, and you have the power to reject all thoughts that may disturb or upset you.
~ Murphy Joseph
I like to stay within the zone of one character. It would disturb me to break away and go into an entirely different territory.
~ Farhan Akhtar
What one wants to do with stories is screw them up.
~ William H. Gass
I feel concerned by what happens in the world.... I don't want to merely document; I want to know why a certain thing disturbs or attracts me and how a situation can affect the person involved.
~ Martine Franck
The tortures of present death disturb him not, but the recollection of his fall, fills him with a holy sorrow.
~ John Strachan
Wilde's formulation of art's purpose: "[What art] seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
~ Tom Hodgkinson
Art is made to disturb, science reassures.
~ Georges Braque
Art disturbs, science reassures.
~ Georges Braque
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
~ Georges Braque
Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.
~ T.S. Eliot
From everything I can read about Aussie spiders, it seems like all they really like doing is hiding in your house or garden or car until you 'accidentally' disturb them - probably by doing something crazy like putting on the shoe they are lurking in - and they can officially bite you to pieces.
~ John Niven
Galbatorix glanced over his shoulder and said, "It was inconsiderate of you to attack so early in the morning. I was already awake--I rise well before dawn--but you woke Shruikan. He gets rather irritated when he's tired, and when he's irritated, he tends to eat people. My guards learned long ago not to disturb him when he's resting. You would have done well to follow their example.
~ Christopher Paolini
Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace.
~ James Baldwin