Scare Quotes - Page 6

• When someone reaches middle age, people he knows begin to get put in charge of things, and knowing what he knows about the people who are being put in charge of things scares the hell out of him.

  Calvin Trillin

  Knowing, People, Age

  Calvin Trillin (2011). “Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff”, p.21, Random House

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• The scare quotes burn off like fog.

  Ben Lerner

  Fog

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• I'm not trying to be noble. I'm afraid. And the idea of having more love than I've ever had-- and knowing I might never have it again-- that scares me worse than anything.

  Randall Wallace

  Ideas, Knowing, Trying

  Randall Wallace (2001). “Pearl Harbor Movie Tie-In”, Hyperion

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• I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

  Mark Lawrence

  Fear, Writing, Quiet Moments

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.26, Penguin

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• Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

  Emmanuelle Vaugier

  Shining, Things I Love, Daylight

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• I think what I often see is that people are frightened about fashion. Because it scares them or makes them feel insecure, so they just put it down. On the whole people that may say the mean things about our world I think that’s usually because they feel, in some ways, excluded or, you know, not a part of ‘the cool group’ so as a result they just mock it.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, Mean, Insecure

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• Any time an opportunity scares you that much, you should seriously consider saying yes.

  Rob Lowe

  Opportunity, Saying Yes, Should

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• I think being raised within a Mexican Catholic family made magical realism a very natural part of who I am as a person and as a writer. My parents always told us great stories that often had magical elements and roots within Mexican folklore. Also, I remember my father reading a book to me, when I was very young, about the lives of saints. Those were crazy scary stories! Maybe he was trying to scare me into being a good person. In the end, magical realism offers me untethered freedom to explore human frailty and the way we clumsily cobble together our lives on this strange planet.

  Daniel Olivas

  Crazy, Father, Book

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• She closed her eyes. "I didn't know that. i didn't know anything. It scares me the things I told myself. But I would have told myself almost anything, because I wanted to believe him." "Why?" "Because I wanted to be with you.

  Ann Brashares

  Believe, Eye, Wanted

  Ann Brashares (2010). “My Name is Memory”, p.208, Penguin

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• I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

  Jeremy London

  Ideas, Fame, Being Famous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 'So,' he said as we turned onto the main road, the muffler rattling, 'I've been thinking.' 'Yeah?' He nodded. 'You really need to go out with me.' I blinked. 'I'm sorry?' 'You know. You, me. A restaurant or movie. Together.' He glanced over, shifting gears. 'Maybe it's a new concept for you? If so, I'll be happy to walk you through it.' 'You want to take me to a movie?' I asked. 'Well, not really,' he said. 'What I really want is for you to be my girlfriend. But I though saying that might scare you off.'

  Sarah Dessen

  Girlfriend, Sorry, Thinking

  "What Happened To Goodbye". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2011.

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• I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

  Samantha Barks

  Ends

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• Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Heart, Broken, Wanted

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.248, St. Martin's Press

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• Sometimes when I make a good save, I yell out, 'Woo-Hooo!' I'm not sure why, but it just feels good. I don't think I scare anyone or freak anyone out when I do it. I just like to holler when I make a tough stop.

  Marc-Andre Fleury

  Thinking, Nhl, Feel Good

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• What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.

  Ani DiFranco

  Real, Believe, Bugs

  Song: AS IS, Album: Little Plastic Castle

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• I think it's [concern about global warming] mainly just like little kids locking themselves in dark closets to see how much they can scare each other and themselves.

  Richard Lindzen

  Kids, Dark, Thinking

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• I do think you have to scare yourself. That's where your creativity or your growth comes from. Scaring yourself, challenging yourself, taking those risks, and not caring about what anyone thinks.

  Rita Wilson

  Creativity, Caring, Thinking

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• Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

  Edward Abbey

  Liberty, Too Much, Term

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• We're never going to scare people into living more sustainably! We have to be able to demonstrate just how dynamic and aspirational such a world could be

  Jonathon Porritt

  Future, People, Vision

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• I get up about four times a night and go back to sleep, or not. Then I swill tea around 8 a.m. I answer e-mail, while I stall thinking about whatever scares me.

  Jenny Holzer

  Sleep, Thinking, Night

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• I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse'.

  Vera Farmiga

  Friendship, Night, My Best Friend

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• One day I visited a guy who had made a fortune as a broker. He was sitting in his office with his computer. I hire people from here and make deals from this room, he told me. Then he took me to the trading room. Nobody was talking to anybody else, the place was silent as a tomb, they were all sitting there watching their terminals - a great word, terminal. I tell you, it scares the crap out of me.

  Studs Terkel

  Talking, People, Office

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• I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child

  Carol Alt

  Children, Pregnancy, Responsibility

  "The Body Game". Interview with Elizabeth Sporkin, people.com. January 11, 1993.

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• What I've found - and the older I get, the more I understand this and stand behind it - is, my whole life has been an exploration of telling the truth. It's scary to be truthful, and it's scary to reveal yourself, and I'm very attracted to doing things that scare me.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Scary, Truthful, Telling The Truth

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 27, 2011.

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• I am coming to the end of acting. I have a list: another stage production, maybe one or two more movies, one more season of American Horror Story. . . and then that is it for me. Because I think that's enough. I want to go out with a bang. . . or should I say, a scare?

  Jessica Lange

  Thinking, Horror Stories, Two

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