Scare Quotes

Horror movies have never been my thing. I love psychological thrillers like The Exorcist, The Shining, even though they scare the living daylights out of me.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

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.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

I had a cancer scare in the early 90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it.

I know I should stop smoking, but it scares me. I mean, what would I turn to next?

On stage you can group 200 people together and scare them or embarrass them or whatever. You can't do that on TV. You have to use the conventions, that's why Kevin (Turvey) works so well.

I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

It is wrong to make anyone into an enemy; it is wrong to scare the people of one's own country with that enemy and try to rally some allies on that basis.

Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.

I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

George Bush is just as much in the dark as I am, and it scares me.

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

Super-stardom doesn't scare or excite me. It's just another ingredient added to my world.

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.

Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.

If your body is excited to do something, that's what you should be doing. Or if it really scares you, you should be doing it.

It takes a lot to scare me.

Nothing scares me. I'll do anything.

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'

Scare the hell out of the American people.

I would like to stay stoned all the time, it scares me it’s so good. I would like to stay stoned every minute of every day for the rest of my life.

The scare quotes burn off like fog.

For me, the slower burn is a deeper and more effective scare. But I only like those kinds of scares when they're really earned. I don't like false scares.

I've got big feet, so filling someone else's big shoes doesn't scare me.

Horror movies scare me, because I watch them as just - I don't even watch them as an actor.

Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.

If it entertains you, cool - read it, listen to it, watch it. But if it horrifies or disgusts you or scares you, then don't listen to it.

Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway.

Tell the world what scares you most. Save the world with some advice from the future.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

I guess Im attracted and repelled by isolation. It scares me. And its why I tend to write about older characters, too, because for them the stakes are somewhat higher.

These days, tales of what Facebook did with its users during the singularity are commonly used to scare naughty children in Wales.

I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.

Damon Scares me,' Maggie said. 'Maybe you should do what he wants.' 'Can't.' 'Why not?' 'Because he killed me. That kind of pisses me off

I hope I'm going to act for the rest of my life. What scares me is that if I get a big head, my mum said she would take me out of the business instantly - and if you knew my mum, she would do it!

I'm absolutely terrified of heights, so maybe it's something I'd like to do in the future... although even saying it scares me! But I would absolutely love to overcome my fear of heights.

New white people, you can't scare these white people, I tried.

The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you

I tossed off a mention of the pirates early on. And they became integral to the backstory. Sometimes now I imagine them in the woods. They scare me. All men. Dirty and wearing red.

Our contemporary Tories prefer the term 'ordered liberty' to 'freedom'. The word 'freedom' scares them; it has too much of a paleolithic ring to it.

We can't simply scare people into giving up their rights, on the basis, oh, this protects us from terrorism.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think.

At the end of the day, the internet is a fair space. A medium of infinite resource. And something we've never had before, ever. But people aren't connecting the dots, and that's what scares me.

Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?" "It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?

I love to learn, and Victoria's Secret has given me more opportunities than I ever thought possible. I like doing things that scare me - I've learned never to doubt myself.