Scary Quotes - Page 5

• I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

  William Gibson

  Writing, People, Survival

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• Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.

  Seth Godin

  Blow, Years, Wind

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• I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Dream, Painting

  Vincent van Gogh (1987). “Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality”, Gloucester

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• Cover versions, that's my forte, that's all I ever used to do. When you play your own songs, it's quite scary, 'cause I'm quite honest and open, they can be very revealing. But covers, I don't have to think about, just get me up there!

  Ellie Goulding

  Song, Thinking, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.

  Eli Roth

  Knowing, Judging, Cameras

  Interview with Jasper Anson, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true - I'm scary.

  Eva Mendes

  Temper, Angry, Ifs

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• The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn't think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

  Joyce Meyer

  Thinking, People, Perfect

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• I think old people are scary. They remind you of your own death. People don't like to tell you that.

  Grace Slick

  Thinking, People, Old People

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• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios.

  Kevin Spacey

  Thinking, Film, Driven

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• I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... almost scary.

  Britney Spears

  Love Life, Found, Impressive

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• My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me because he woke me up in the middle of the night. My heart was beating; I didn't know what he wanted to do. He wouldn't tell me, and he put me in the car and we went off, and I saw all these people lying on blankets, looking up at the sky.

  Steven Spielberg

  Dad, Lying, Heart

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Fear, Dangerous

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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• We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Father, Mean, Divorced

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• At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing.

  Sharon Stone

  Going Away, Firsts, Fame

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• I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too much. But there are these feelings inside me which need badly to escape, I guess. And this makes me feel relieved because one of my big concerns these past few years is that I've been losing my ability to feel things with the same intensity- the way I felt when I was younger. It's scary- to feel your emotions floating away and just not caring. I guess what's really scary is not caring about the loss.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loss, Caring, Past

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you’ll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.

  C.C. Hunter

  Ends, Wells

  C. C. Hunter (2011). “Awake at Dawn”, p.213, St. Martin's Griffin

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• My hair is so scary that if you saw it walking down the street, you'd cross to the other side. This humidity is not helping. It's just an excuse for my hair to let its frizz flag fly.

  Susane Colasanti

  Hair, Flags, Saws

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.17, Penguin

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• When you stand out there," John continues in a hoarse voice, "keep your chin up, all right? Don't let them get to you." "I won't." "Make them work for it. Punch someone if you have to." John gives me a sad, crooked smile. "You're a scary kid. So scare them. Okay? All the way until the end." For the first time in a long time, I feel like a little brother. I have to swallow hard to keep my eyes dry. "Okay," I whisper.

  Marie Lu

  Brother, Kids, Eye

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• But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Love, Forever, Lust

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Burned”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I wanted to tell you everything. And that hurt because some things were too scary. Some things even I didn’t understand. How could I tell someone—someone I was really talking to for the first time—everything I was thinking? I couldn’t. It was too soon.

  Jay Asher

  Hurt, Thinking, Talking

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.109, Penguin

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• If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

  Rohinton Mistry

  Cutting, Night, Together

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.418, Vintage

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• How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and fences can be mirrors. And between the nets and fences, opponents are also mirrors. This is why the whole thing is scary. This why all opponents are scary and weaker opponents are especially scary. See yourself in your opponents. They will bring you to understand the Game. To accept the fact that the Game is about managed fear. That its object is to send from yourself what you hope will not return.

  David Foster Wallace

  Running, Mirrors, Games

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• Many of those people involved in Adolf Hitler were Satanists, many were homosexuals - the two things seem to go together.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Two, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.

  Pat Robertson

  Stupid, Kissing, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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