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Quotes About Startle

I enjoy scaring people.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I enjoy scaring people too much to let it go!
~ Neil Marshall
We just loved scaring ourselves.
~ Matt Duffer
Wolf! Right here and now!
~ Peter Straub
I haven't seen a lot of horror because I'm ridiculously sensitive and I get scared really easily.
~ Phoebe Fox
I like to shock people.
~ Jo Brand
He did another experiment, the Startle Reflex Test, in which psychopaths and non-psychopaths were invited to look at grotesque images, like crime-scene photographs of blown-apart faces, and then when they least expected it, Bob would let off an incredibly loud noise in their ear. The non-psychopaths would leap with astonishment. The psychopaths would remain comparatively serene. Bob
~ Jon Ronson
I was in the utmost astonishment, and roared so loud that they all ran back in a fright; and some of them, as I was afterwards told, were hurt with the falls they got by leaping from my sides upon the ground. However, they soon returned
~ Jonathan Swift
He looks about as happy as a penguin in a microwave.
~ Sid Waddell
Alabama's so scared she pees on herself.
~ Quentin Tarantino
You. O Positive. How many exits?" "What?...Oh shit, did you just call me by my bloodtype?
~ Rachel Caine
I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.
~ Ronnie Wood
I have always had a ridiculous fear that I will walk into the bathroom one morning and find a python in my toilet.
~ Lisa Graff
It's always disconcerting when somebody comes over to you on the bus and says, 'I know who you are.'
~ Diana Taylor
A shotgun blast went off
~ Ray Bradbury
Good gracious!
~ Joseph Conrad
Entonces oyó el llanto. Eso lo despertó: un llanto suave, delgado, que quizá por delgado pudo traspasar la maraña del sueño, llegando hasta el lugar donde anidan los sobresaltos.
~ Juan Rulfo
Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
burst into my room brandishing a newspaper
~ Wanda von Sacher-Masoch
She rose hastily from her bed, and stepped lightly to the window. A tall figure stood among the shadows of the trees. As it raised its head, a beam of moonlight fell upon the countenance. Heaven and earth ! she beheld the Spectre Bridegroom !
~ Washington Irving
I felt something rough brush against my leg. I yelped and jerked it away instinctively. "What?" Shane asked. Before I even lowered my head, I knew. Underneath me I saw the sleek gray body gliding below.
~ Watt Key
This is spooky," Minho spoke quietly, "Alby hold my hand." "Dude chill.
~ James Dashner
Oswin, zo is het wel genoeg,' zei Balam. 'Straks schrikt hij nog van zijn eigen schaduw.' 'Misschien is het tijd dat we allemaal wat sneller schrikken.
~ James Rollins
Adam said, 'Christ!' and Danny Hislop, wriggling past said, 'No. Lord Culter, I do declare.
~ Dorothy Dunnett