Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
Nerves provide me with energy... It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that's when I get worried.
Steve Bruce is like a cat on hot tin bricks.
...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.
I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.
It's so thrilling to be intimidated.
You may not know it but I'm no good at coping with all the attention in the luxury hotels I sometimes find myself in.
I love discordancy. It makes people ill at ease and wakes up a part of their brain that's normally asleep.
Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company.
You know, what genuinely makes me uneasy with the way things are going are not - is not really that Trump is going to do everything he said he was going to do, it's that he has no idea of his job as president. Plus, the people who have been up close and realized that he has no idea how to do this job are leaking like sieves.
Tenterhooks are the upholstery of the anxious seat.
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.
If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious.
Lovers are commonly industrious to make themselves uneasy.
With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic.
A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
I think crafting a new, effective horror movie is not just about when night falls and things get scary. It's about setting a tone and mood that permeates throughout the entire movie. So even during the daytime, things are never quite safe-feeling.
What happens with you when you begin to feel uneasy, unsettled, queasy? Notice the panic, notice when you instantly grab for something. (51)
California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension.
I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.
I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.
There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.
The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.
