Frightening Quotes
It was Ronald Reagan who used to say that the 10 most frightening words in the English language are, "I'm from the federal government, and I'm here to help."
I didn't know anything about it, I swear. Nor did Dave Bassett. We were sitting there saying 'What's happening here?'. It is frightening. A nightmare.
I might be in the basement. I'll go upstairs and check. We adore chaos because we love to produce order. I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.
It's frightening when things you love appear suddenly changed from what you have always known.
I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.
It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
When you're used to being healthy and strong and vibrant and everything and then - bang - overnight you're desperately ill, it's frightening.
The male image has been so pulled down by situation comedy in the last 15 years, it is frightening. I don't like what has happened to the American male.
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be. Because of all I may become, I will close my eyes and leap.
What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.
Living in continual chaos is exhausting, frightening. The catch is that it's also very addictive.
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.
Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
One of the most frightening things about your true nerd, for may people, is not that he's socially inept - because everybody's been there - but rather his complete lack of embarrassment about it.
When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email to Neil and not getting it back, with corrections.
Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.
It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them.
I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.
How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.
My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.
Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.
I know all's fair in love and war but when you go off and try to be by yourself and it ends up on the front page of the press it's frightening, knowing your life is under such scrutiny.
Death is losing its terror. It is the emergency exit for a world that is becoming more frightening death ever was.
Any little bit of experimenting in self-nurturance is very frightening for most of us.
It can be really frightening for young people to see their parents fighting. Remember, you're not alone and there are people out there who can support you.
Governments throughout the English-speaking sphere are creating and then ratcheting the torque on "hate-speech" laws with frightening eagerness.
Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.
I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.
The whole wide world scares me! Seriously. I think what happens in our world is so much more frightening than anything I can come up with in my movies.
It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
I'm going to go with Chihuahua, just because I can't think of anything more frightening than a giant Chihuahua.
When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.
It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
