Scary Quotes - Page 6

• The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

  Peter Hook

  Texas, Differences, Quality

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• And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it's not you going through it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Movie, Toes, Curls

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• Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

  Michael Hutchence

  Men, Together, Groups

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

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• I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

  Shirley Jackson

  Use, Situation, Whole

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• I like movies that are scary, but I don't want them to be dirt dumb. I want a movie that gets my blood racing, makes me laugh, but also gives me something to think about, with maybe a little sexy thrown in. Hollywood doesn't make movies like that.

  Penn Jillette

  Sexy, Thinking, Blood

  "Will You Help Penn Jillette Make a Horror Film?" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. September 19, 2013.

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• And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

  Elton John

  Country, Gay, People

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• Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected.

  Shawn Johnson

  Retirement, Giving Up, Gymnastics

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• The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

  Paul Kane

  Book, Mean, Night

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• It is much safer to obey than to rule.

  Thomas a Kempis

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• What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.

  Nikita Khrushchev

  Scientist, Briefcases

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• As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Real, Moving, Reading

  "We never talk any more: The problem with text messaging" by Jeffrey Kluger, edition.cnn.com. August 31, 2012.

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• All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Gossip, Narrative

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• I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Passion, Want, Prison

  "Exclusive interview: Ashton Kutcher talks Steve Jobs". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I know people who are twice as creative as I am, twice as smart, but they didn't do anything because they feared going into a room and opening their mouths. My parents told me to truly accomplish things in my life, there would be times I would have to stand alone. It may be scary, but that's what it requires.

  Queen Latifah

  Smart, People, Creative

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• I feel that everyone has a Hulk inside, and each of our Hulks is both scary and, potentially, pleasurable. That's the scariest thing about them.

  Ang Lee

  Feels

  Interview with Scott B., www.ign.com. June 17, 2003.

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• The thought that so many people get their news from social media really is scary.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, People, News

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• How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

  Maya Lin

  Children, Home, Artist

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• I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

  Maya Lin

  War, Artist, Memorial

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

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• Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.

  Lorna Luft

  Chaos, Frightening, Exhausting

  "How to Find the Gifts in Chaos" by Matthew B. James, Ph.D., www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2015.

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• Scary monsters are like Hula Hoops. They come in and out of fashion.

  John Malkovich

  Fashion, Hula, Monsters

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• In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.

  David Mamet

  Insecurity, World, Threat

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it.

  Marilyn Manson

  Receiving, Reason Why, Stage

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• Students never think it can be the teacher's fault and so I thought I was stupid. I was frustrated and would come home and cry because I couldn't do it. Then we got a new teacher who made math accessible. That made all the difference and I learned that it's how you present it that makes it scary or friendly.

  Danica McKellar

  Teacher, Stupid, Home

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• I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

  Danica McKellar

  Girl, School, Math

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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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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