I believe in leavening. You can't have words sticking out too much, like promontories. They disturb the density. You have to flatten them, or raise the surrounding terrain.

- Ben Okri

It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.

- Beny Steinmetz

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

- Catherine Booth

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

- Eckhart Tolle

Art is made to disturb, science reassures.

- Georges Braque

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

- Hermann Hesse

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

- Jean Rostand

Similarly, the Marquis is presented in this film as someone who would disturb the status quo and therefore must be kept imprisoned.

- Philip Kaufman

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

- Rabindranath Tagore

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

- Simon Callow