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Quotes About Startle

I love horror movies.
~ Samira Wiley
I am scared of horror movies.
~ Chris Gethard
The first thing I saw was a mottled green face half a yard wide staring through the broken window. I said something intelligent like, "Gleep!" The face grinned. It was a groll, a hybrid of human, troll, and the Beast That Talks that is never named in polite company. I grinned back. Grolls are slow of wit and often quick of temper.
~ Glen Cook
And then the cold muzzle of a dart gun at the back of her neck erased all other brain activity.
~ Gordon Korman
With a terrified yelp, the guard turned tail and ran the other way.
~ Gordon Korman
Manchmal blubbert es, und du denkst, gleich machst du dir in den Schlüpper, doch dann ist es nur Aftersausen?" - Gerlinde
~ Sebastian Fitzek
Brrrrraaaaakkkkkkkeeeee!
~ Shanna Swendson
She looked to her right and saw terror frozen on Britta's and Esa's faces like ice on a windowpane.
~ Shannon Hale
Mitch opened his eyes, closed them, and then opened them wide. "There are big breasts in my face," he announced to anyone who would listen.
~ Shelly Laurenston
When I die of heart failure the next time you frighten me like that, you can put that on my gravestone —'I didn't mean to startle her
~ Patricia Briggs
Just then something fell from above. "Watch it!" said Jack.
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Ahhh!" Jack screamed and fell back into the canoe. The
~ Mary Pope Osborne
So she looks in her rearview mirror," one is saying, "and there's a bear in the back seat, eating popcorn.
~ Mary Roach
He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Cagarrutas de ratón!
~ Erin Hunter
However now we can create a sound that can truly startle someone and in terms of sound effects I think the environment that we are in now has improved dramatically.
~ Nobuo Uematsu
I don't mind giving everyone a shock - including myself.
~ Jessica Brown Findlay
Oh no a nigger cat!
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Oh, my God!" Gwen suddenly burst out, startling the bears in the room, which made the rest of the predators nervous.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Oh God, it's her, run!
~ Simon R. Green
When I woke Herbert, he sprang to his feet. What was the matter? When he saw that nothing was the matter, he started snoring again—to avoid being bored.
~ Max Frisch
As what-the-fuck moments went, this one was one of the bigger ones.
~ Maya Banks
You just said you were sorry. ... I was only apologizing, he said stiffly, for startling you. The applause was to compliment you on the improvement in your life-saving techniques since the last time you-
~ Meg Cabot
Jake leaned on the horn, swearing loudly. Gina covered her eyes. Doc flung his arms around me, burying his face in my lap, and Dopey, to my great surprise, began to scream like a girl, very close to my ear....
~ Meg Cabot