Distressing Quotes

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

If you film a scene in a wide shot, especially a disturbing, distressing moment, I do feel like that helps you feel as though you're the room with these people, instead of cutting it up and getting close - which you wouldn't be doing if you were actually in a room with these people.

I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar.