Scared Quotes - Page 29

• After Westlife, I was in a scared place, you know; you've three children, and I worry about providing for them, and I had no guarantees going forward about the future.

  Shane Filan

  Children, Worry, Three

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• The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Ghost Stories, Pieces

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• I'm scared of boogers. If anyone ever showed me a booger I'd smash their face in.

  Johnny Depp

  Faces, Boogers, Ifs

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• It's crazy that we live in a world where if your super positive and super creative...it's scary. Because what does that tell you about the mentality of most people if your scared of like...positivity.

  Kanye West

  Crazy, Positivity, People

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• The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.

  Frank Stella

  Integrity, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

  Alan Watts

  Running, Pain, Fighting

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary.

  Meg Cabot

  Drama, Character, Play

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• I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Dear Lord, People

  "'Like a puppy in a Christmas stocking'". Interview With Susan Olasky, world.wng.org. September 20, 2003.

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• I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

  Christopher Walken

  Cat, Animal, Talking

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• To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.

  David Foster Wallace

  Moving, Order, Looks

  Interview With Larry McCaffery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1993.

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• There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

  David Walliams

  Mean, Comedian, Failing

  "So, Eddie Izzard, were your marathons an attempt to trump my swims?". Interview with Eddie Izzard, www.independent.co.uk. March 23, 2012.

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• Khufu carefully picked out everything that ended with-o—Doritos, Oreos, and some chunks of meat. Buffalo? Armadillo? I was scared to even ask.

  Rick Riordan

  Khufu, Meat, Oreos

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles Book 1): The Red Pyramid”, p.257, Penguin UK

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• How could you let him do this? (Shahara) I know you’re not going to pin this on me, Shay. I didn’t raise the embryo. You did. It’s what you get for teaching him things like honor, love, courage, and loyalty. If you’d left him a scared little snot-nose, he’d still be living in your basement. (Vik)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Teaching, Honor

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• I have a flamthrower. (Zarek) You have a what? (Astrid) It pays to be prepared. (Zarek) Well. Those are nice for toasting marshmallows, but they’ll only make Thanatos mad. Regular fire won’t hurt him. I have this really neat gelatinous goo that comes out with my fire and it squirts my victims so that it don’t come off. Wanna see it? (Simi) No! (Zarek/Astrid) No? I don’t like that word. (Simi) We love you, Simi. We’re just scared of your goo. (Astrid) Oh, that I understand. Okay, you can live. (Simi)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Nice, Love You

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• I was woundering what he would say, what word could sum me up right then, when i saw the lights come across his face, blaringly yellow, and suddenly he was brighter, and brighter, and i asked him what was happening, what was wrong. I remember only that light, so strong it spilled across my shoulders, and lit up his face, and how scared he looked as something big and loud hit my door, sending glass shattering across me, little sparks catching the light like diamonds, as they fell, with me, into the dark.

  Sarah Dessen

  Strong, Dark, Glasses

  Sarah Dessen (2003). “How to Deal”, Puffin

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• When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

  John Marsden

  Fall, Thinking, Giving

  John Marsden (1997). “The Dead of Night”, p.231, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I used to be scared of pretty girls, until one confessed they're just as scared of me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.

  Lev Grossman

  Writing, Optimistic, Fiction

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• I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

  Kanye West

  Music, Numbers, Trying

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• When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

  Paul Michael Glaser

  Believe, Choices, Identity

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• I used to be scared of loosing you and it happened just as I had thought. I wonder if you ever feel hurt about having lost the love we had. Do you feel the pain that I feel?

  Ron Miles

  Hurt, Pain, Lost Love

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Suicidal

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I shot a wild elephant in Africa thirty yards from me, and it didn't hit the ground until it was right at my feet. I wasn't a bit scared. But a four foot putt scares me to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Elephants, Feet

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• I hear them mumblin, I hear the cacklin I got em scared, shook, panickin

  Nicki Minaj

  Bad Ass, Ems, Ass

  Song: Roman's Revenge

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• We're scared of losing. That's why we win. We know what it's like to lose and we hate it. We enjoy being champions too much.

  Bob Bourne

  Hate, Hockey, Winning

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