Scare Quotes - Page 9

It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

There's nothing I'm scared of in football.

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.

You want to know what scares people? Success.

I am scared of being broke and famous. I think that would be the biggest curse.

We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

I learned it by doing it, and I was scared to death.

I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

I'm a homer, so the closer [I perform] to my house the better. If I could get crowds to gather around my bed, that would be ideal. I also like doing stand-up in places that I can surf, snowboard, or anywhere that I have a pregnancy scare.

Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.

As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.

I am so scared of the sea, so what did I do? Learned to scuba in the Great Barrier Reef.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

I was taught that I cannot back down to anything. I was trained never to be scared.

Anybody who wears a mask is scared.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

I listen to him [Chief Keef] the most. I like his older mixtapes a little better though, because old Chief Keef scared me - I thought he was about to pop up out of nowhere with a hoodie on and shoot me.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Scared is what happens when the sacred gets scrambled.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of