Scary Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• 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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• Remember what I said about the mosquitoes?" "Which part" asked Maggie. "The scary part, the really scary part, the legitimately terrifying part, or the part that makes suicide sound like an awesome way to spend the evening?

  Mira Grant

  Suicide, Sound, Mosquitoes

  Mira Grant (2012). “Blackout: The Newsflesh Trilogy:”, p.41, Hachette UK

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• A scary but yet beautiful smile

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Beautiful, Beautiful Smile

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• Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest.

  Rod Serling

  Ideas, Earth, Twilight Zone

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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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• They stayed, many of them, because staying was easier and less scary than leaving.

  Richard Russo

  Leaving, Easier, Staying

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• You can't abandon life just because it's scary, and just because you get hurt.

  Jim Butcher

  Hurt, Abandon

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.31, Penguin

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• It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

  Guillaume Musso

  Balance, Life Is, Complicated

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• The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.

  Rick Riordan

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• We all have ideas about love and death. We keep a close eye out for them our entire lives, seeking one and avoiding the other, knowing all the while that both are mostly beyond our control. It is a both scary and exciting predicament. In the end, it all depends on how you look at it. One thing is for sure; it is never quite what you expect.

  Tonya Hurley

  Eye, Ideas, Knowing

  Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.178, Hachette UK

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• The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be.

  Susane Colasanti

  Moving, Fate, Knowing

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.159, Penguin

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• Light our fire and protect us from the dark, blah blah, light our way and keep us toasty warm, the night is dark and full of terrors, save us from the scary things, and blah blah blah some more.

  George R. R. Martin

  Dark, Night, Fire

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.3504, Bantam

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• There's nothing as scary as the future.

  John Irving

  John Irving (2012). “A Prayer For Owen Meany”, p.209, Random House

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• There are ways in which we’re so alike. We’re reckless. We don’t think before we act. We’ll do anything for people we love. And I never thought how scary that was for the people who loved me until I saw

  Cassandra Clare

  Thinking, People, Way

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.522, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma

  Natsuki Takaya

  Helping, Loving Others, Know How

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• The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Knowing Nothing, Knowing, Truth Is

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• My brother gave me some good advice. He said, "What do you want to do? Do that because there are no rules when it comes to love. There are absolutely no rules. Do what you want to do." I think that was the most liberating piece of advice, because love really is unpredictable. There's trap doors, all kinds of scary stuff, caves and bears... You never know what's going to happen so you just have to do what you feel is right in the end.

  Taylor Swift

  Brother, Thinking, Doors

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• My tiny scary friend is coming

  Laini Taylor

  Tiny

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.152, Hachette UK

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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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• 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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• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  Gary Ross

  Generations, Eras, Nostalgia

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. October 21, 1998.

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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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