Fright Quotes - Page 7

• 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

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• when night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable

  Thucydides

  Army, Night, Crowds

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.291, Simon and Schuster

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• In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Men, East, Panic

  "French Short Stories". Book by Guy de Maupassant, tr. H. C. Schweikert, "Fright", 1918.

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• It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence

  Richard Wilbur

  Violence, Fancy, Tricks

  1969 Walking to Sleep, 'On the Marginal Way'.

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• The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  School, Boys, Play

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Politicians”

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• Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

  Charles A. Beard

  Destiny, Mirrors, Evil

  "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.

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• English stupidity is an organism so primitive that it is apparently impossible to kill off. It reminds me of Physarum Polycephalum, the gigantic slime mould recently bred by scientists at Bonn. Bright yellow and about two millimetres thick, this monocellular creature--neither plant nor animal--grew to a size of 10 square yards before the scientists took fright and froze it. It can smell its favourite food, and move towards it at a speed of up to two centimetres an hour. This favourite food is porridge.

  Neal Ascherson

  Moving, Animal, Two

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• [Princess Margaret] was loud, an extrovert, an exhibitionist, loved fashion, loved color, loved music, loved drama, loved the theater, wanted to be a ballerina or actress, was always the little one putting on the school plays, and [princess] Elizabeth reluctantly did it and got stage fright.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Fashion, Drama, Princess

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• I still get stage fright horribly. I still get nervous. I do tend to find when you're playing characters, often - just for the time you're playing them - there are sides of your personality that get stronger because you draw on them more.

  Vanessa Kirby

  Character, Personality, Stronger

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• I graduated from school for graphic design, and I started to get into acting class just to get over severe fright. I was an extremely shy person. I could barely say hello to anybody.

  Trevor Donovan

  School, Class, Design

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• Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.

  Bill Hader

  People, Television, Enough

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• When people can see a vision and simultaneously recognize what can be done step by step in a concrete way to achieve it, they will begin to feel encouragement and enthusiasm instead of fright.

  Erich Fromm

  Encouragement, People, Vision

  Erich Fromm (2013). “To Have Or To Be?”, p.153, A&C Black

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• Stand-up is not something that you're good at right away. You have to do it a ton. But, I think I got to shave a year off because I didn't have to get over stage fright.

  Amy Schumer

  Thinking, Years, Stage

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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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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• I had serious performance stage fright. I kept my singing to the confines of my shower and car, while doing the dishes, and in my basement, but I would burst out crying if anyone asked me to sing.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Car, Singing, Serious

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• I still get stage fright every time. I also feel very, very sleepy about a minute before we go on. Like I feel like I'm going to fall asleep. I can't explain it. It's sort of like, "Where's the energy going to come from to play this show?" Then all of a sudden you step up and there it is, it's like it's waiting for you.

  Jonathan Meiburg

  Fall, Waiting, Energy

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• The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

  Joyce Cary

  Government, Hell

  "The Horse's Mouth". Book by Joyce Cary, www.theguardian.com. 1944.

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• I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Nervous, Stage, Has Beens

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• Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.

  Lara Fabian

  Doors, Doubt, Scared

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