Fright Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• People say to me, you have not got stage fright. And if I haven't got stage fright, then I'm going to be comfortable within myself, and then something - I've always been that way and so I'm fighting to get away from that fear.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Fighting, People, Way

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• When a man grows old his joy
  Grows more deep day after day,
  His empty heart is full at length
  But he has need of all that strength
  Because of the increasing Night
  That opens her mystery and fright.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Heart, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Reading, Causes

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• The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

  Mason Cooley

  Desire, Looks, Literature

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• The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Life, Self, Ideas

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• There has been in our time a lack of reliance on language and a lack of experimentation which are frightening to anyone who sees them as symptoms. We know the phenomenon of stage-fright: it holds the player shivering, incapable of speech or action. Perhaps there is an audience-fright which the play can feel, which leaves him with these incapacities.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Player, Speech, Action

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• I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.

  Karl Kraus

  People, Speak, Stage

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales. Fairy tales are as ancient as we are. I love those stories. I think they're really interesting because they always have more than simply the fright aspect. There's something deeply psychological.

  Denis O'Hare

  Love Is, Thinking, Interesting

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