Scary Quotes - Page 26

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

There's something about being cerebral, intellectual, and yet emotionally repressed [in being villain]. If you think someone's doing this [bad] stuff and they're in complete control, that's more scary than if they're out of control.

Trust not to friends and kindred, neither do thou put off the care of thy soul's welfare til hereafter; for men will sooner forget thee than thou art aware of.

It is much safer to obey than to rule.

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.

About 10 minutes ago, we all woke up because of this strange roaring sound. We all raced toward the sound, which turned out to be the washing machine going back on. Who knew the rinse cycle could be so scary?

I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.

Big emotions that are unexplained are really scary. At least to me.

Ship small art. Then, ship medium art. Then, ship world-changing, scary, change-your-underwear art.

As a working actor, all I want to do is work. That's it. It's terrifying when you don't work. It's very hard when you don't work. There have been times when I've been out of work for like six months. I feel theatre to me is like manna.

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.

I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

You really can't just take someone who's got a drug addiction and just put 'em in rehab. It doesn't work that way. You can't choose it for them. They have to choose it for themselves - because that's scary. It's really hard.

For the first time ever, everything is in place for the Battle of Armageddon and the Second Coming of Christ.

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.

I think the age we're living in is starting to get scary.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

The Soviet constitution guarantees everyone a job. A pretty scary idea, I'd say.

I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.

I think the script's actually pretty solid. It really is a labor of love for us to get this thing off the ground. It was scary but then there was the change in leadership and I think that the new guy in charge is basically like, "We should just do this."

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.

We're divorced from my father because he did some mean and scary things to us.