Fright Quotes - Page 5

• No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden. My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Fear, Mood, Pleasure

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• He gazed up at the blue sky and knew that heaven—at least in this life—was neither a time nor a place to be grasped and made into a possession. It came in fleeting moments and then went away again to leave one nostalgic and yearning and on the verge of tears. Very much on the verge of tears. And very frightened.

  Mary Balogh

  Blue, Sky, Heaven

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• His heart is a desert island.... The whole scope, the whole energy of his mind surround and protect him; his depths isolate him and guard him against the truth. He flatters himself that he is entirely alone there.... Patience, dear lady. Perhaps, one day, he will discover some footprint on the sand.... What holy and happy terror, what salutary fright, once he recognizes in that pure sign of grace that his island is mysteriously inhabited!

  Paul Valery

  Heart, Islands, Grace

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• When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce. If the enemy's troops march up angrily and remain facing ours for a long time without either joining battle or removing demands, the situation is one that requires great vigilance and circumspection. To begin by bluster, but afterward to take fright at the enemy's numbers, shows a supreme lack of intelligence.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Numbers

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• The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

  William Hurt

  Technique, Energy, Stage

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• Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.

  Ned Rorem

  Art, Vanity, Views

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Setting the Tone: Essays and a Diary”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Rain, Sleep

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau”

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• The mere possession of a gun is, in itself, an urge to kill, not only by design, but by accident, by madness, by fright, by bravado.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Gun, Power, Design

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• I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.

  Al Yankovic

  Running, Animal, Light

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• Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.

  Kara DioGuardi

  Kids, Past, Idols

  "DIVA TALK: Chatting with Chicago Star Kara DioGuardi". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 16, 2011.

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• I am basically the sort of person who has stage-fright teaching. I kind of creep into a classroom. I'm not an anecdote-teller, either, although I often wish I were.

  Lydia Davis

  Teaching, Wish, Anecdotes

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• As for the stage fright, it never goes away. When I'm waiting in the wings to go on, it's agony every single time but I stay focused and I know that once I'm on stage it'll be fine; I'll be in my happy little bubble.

  Britt Ekland

  Wings, Agony, Waiting

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• The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.

  Britt Ekland

  Ideas, Theatre, Stage

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• Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

  Neil Young

  Horse, Heart, Dark

  Song: Tell Me Why-live

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• I think you need humour and a sense of fun, which is what I try to bring to my books to leaven the danger and action. The ones that really transcend the genre always have a great laugh in them, such as 'Fright Night,' 'Lost Boys,' 'American Werewolf in London' - just to name a few.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fun, Book, Thinking

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• Underachievers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose except your fright.

  Lou Reed

  Philosophy, World, Uniting

  Song: You'll Know You Were Loved

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• When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Nashville, Rights, Race

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• And as to being in a fright,
  Allow me to remark
  That Ghosts have just as good a right
  In every way, to fear the light,
  As Men to fear the dark.

  Lewis Carroll

  Dark, Men, Light

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.832, Delphi Classics

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• The gospel sets us free to become the romantic leaders of our marriages without fright or hesitation. Because we have been forever wooed by Jesus, we are now free to forever woo our wives.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Wife, Leader

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• Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fame, Stage, Trembling

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

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• I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

  Edvard Munch

  Fear, Sky, Two Friends

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• White rose in red rose-garden Is not so white; Snowdrops, that plead for pardon And pine for fright Because the hard East blows Over their maiden vows, Grow not as this face grows from pale to bright.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Blow, Garden, White

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• Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success.

  Charles Rosen

  Epilepsy, Anxiety, Grace

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• It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.

  Tom Stoppard

  Distance, Arrows, Greek

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Jumpers”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• I have horrible stage fright - you know how you go through the bi-polar stage fright thing? Then you go on drugs to get over the stage fright and perform, but then you're not funny at all.

  Roseanne Barr

  Drug, Goes On, Stage

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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