Scare Quotes

• I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

  

  Shirley Henderson
  • World
  • Real
  • Home

• For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

  

  Casey Affleck
  • People
  • Change
  • Balls

• You could do anything, if only you dared. And deep down, you know it, too. That’s what scares you most.

  

  Sarah J. Maas
  • Scare

• Now a days, I don't think these things scare kids. I think that kids are so desensitized to violence and I don't mean this in a negative way what so ever, but, I just think it's the reality that I think that it's just all changing so I don't know.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Kids
  • Violence
  • Negative way

• Whenever there's a role that scares me, I get panicked and nervous. I know that greatness might come because I'm going to get out of my own element and comfort zone.

  

  Moran Atias
  • Greatness
  • Comfort
  • Nervous

• The whole notion of one person being enough for everything gets instantly challenged when you start to talk with somebody about wanting more or of wanting something else. They take it personally, feel like a failure or feel that they lack something, so you don't talk about it because you don't want to hurt, offend, or scare the other person. You also don't want to be rejected or have them leave you, whatever the reason.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Reason
  • Hurt
  • Enough

• If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Important
  • Challenge
  • Scare

• I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.

  

  Rachel Riley
  • Challenge
  • Things
  • Scare

• It wasn’t going to be hard…it was going to be impossible. It wouldn’t deter me. I'd done impossible things several times in the past, and the prospect didn’t scare me as much as it used to.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Hard
  • Impossible
  • Scare

• Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

  

  Erica Jong
  • People
  • Thinking
  • School

• If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

  

  Etgar Keret
  • Enough
  • Scare
  • Rational

• I don't see many convincing heavies in movies. They don't scare me.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Movies
  • Scare
  • Convincing

• I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

  

  Paul Sarbanes
  • Respect
  • President
  • Concerned

• It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Words
  • Damage
  • Scare

• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Scare
  • Assets

• Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset.

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Knows
  • Scare
  • Assets

• I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true terror is the kind that men feel towards their imagination. (from Super-frog Saves Tokyo)

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Imagination
  • Terror
  • Wrote

• Master, I'm afraid. I am, truly. This place scares me. At home, I know who I am, what to do. I'm the Warden's daughter, I know where I stand. But this is a dangerous place, full of pitfalls. All my life, I've known it was waiting for me, but now I'm not sure I can face it. They'll want to absorb me, make me one of them, and I won't change. I won't! I want to stay me." Jared sighed and she saw his dark gaze was fixed on the veiled window. "Claudia, you're the bravest person I know. And no one will change you. You will rule here, though it won't be easy.

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • Home
  • Dark
  • Waiting

• The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

  

  Bill Schneider
  • Scare
  • Republicans
  • Agenda

• Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Choices
  • Looks
  • Wonderful

• Sometimes you do have to scare people a little bit: if someone is not acting in the best interest of the show, then maybe you need to scream and yell a little bit, or let them know you're in charge.

  

  Steven Levitan
  • Interest
  • Show
  • Scare

• Some of my dreams are so big they would scare you.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Dream
  • Scare

• I love to scare the already terrified assholes.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Scare

• A lot of my favorite artists didn't sell much out the gate. I didn't with Common at first. Neither did first albums from Outkast, Nas, or Jay Z. It doesn't scare me.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Artists
  • Scare
  • Gate

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