Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Mill

A philosopher is there to disturb the indolence of the mind

Jerome Charyn

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.

Scott Brown

Roosters have a tendency to disturb the neighborhood when they start doing their crowing.

G. H. Hardy

It's just very disturbing that someone would do such a thing to an individual.

Richard Steele

They that live in a trading street are not disturbed at the passage of carts

Vladimir Putin

They are disturbed by how the investigation is being conducted,

Steve Kerr

You can't just throw money at people. That's not only disturbing but it goes away from the blueprint.

They're pulling me over for loud music, and they were the ones disturbing the peace.

The United States, long a bastion of press freedom, may have contributed to these disturbing trends.

These were some of the most disturbing and egregious images that we've ever seen.

These engines have a disturbing history of in-flight failure.

Ernie Fletcher

the single most disturbing thing about this whole investigation.

David Goyer

Our show is meant to be disturbing and genuinely scary, because I think if something like this did happen, it would be disturbing and scary.

This is in keeping with a very disturbing trend of weakening protections for wildlife and environmental quality at the political level in Washington.

It's some form of trauma. Either someone has disturbed the birds, or some kind of predator is in the area.

It's a profit-driven practice, it's a disturbing practice.

Reuven Rivlin

It was not enough that we took you out of your homes, but we also disturbed the eternal rest of your loved ones.

Oh, my. The thing that was the most disturbing was the mass grave, next to the church, of the 75 people that were lost.

It's very disturbing to hear these things this far into this process.

The high murder rate in Oakland has been one of the most disturbing trends.

Eric Schlosser

The importance of recalls is to show that contaminated meat is getting out the door. And when you look at these recalls, in many ways the most disturbing thing about these recalls is how little of the meat actually winds up back at the plant.

All things being equal, I'm glad we won by two points in overtime rather than 32. I'm disturbed we lost a 16-point lead.

These are obviously extremely disturbing and we're looking further at them.

These findings paint a disturbing picture of the day-to-day impact of being uninsured on the physical as well as financial health of millions of Americans.

Jerry Garcia

I could have made the film a lot more disturbing than it is, ... But my whole point was to inspire people to take action.

John Dewey

A response is not just a re-action, a protest, as it were, against being disturbed; it is, as the word indicates, an answer. It meets the stimulus, and corresponds with it.