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Quotes About Startle

I did not recognise the man at the door and, in split-second time, I pointed the barrel of the fearsome looking weapon to the downstairs living room window, blew that out and then levelled it at the bedroom window above, and blew that out. The owner of the property literally shit his pants and slammed the door.
~ Stephen Richards
Loiosh Informed me of his approach just before he said, "You may borrow them, if you wish," so I could avoid letting him startle me. "I'd like that very much." "I should warn you, however, that I have several volumes devoted to curses for people who don't return books." "I'd like to borrow those, too.
~ Steven Brust
Angus skidded to a stop and lifted his jaw as if sensing he was being watched. He looked in her direction and instantly covered his manhood as his eyes caught Jane's shocked face in the tree limbs. Oh, lassie. Oh, naked man, Jane teased before she could stop herself.
~ Michelle M. Pillow
love leaped out at us like a murderer jumping out of a dark alley.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
I love shocking people.
~ Esai Morales
Blow spiders!
~ Bram Stoker
when I look over at Luis in one brief flashing moment his head looks like a talking vagina and it scares the bejesus out of me...
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Rincewind gave his fingers a long shocked stare, as one might regard a gun that has been hanging on the wall for decades and has suddenly gone off and perforated the cat.
~ Terry Pratchett
I just don't like getting scared, like when people hide and jump out of places. That totally freaks me out. I'm not a fan of it.
~ Tiffany Thornton
I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.
~ Kiefer Sutherland
Scary movies depend on sound a lot to scare people. When I look around and see people are jumping in their seats, I think: Why? Why? Nothing happened!
~ Millicent Simmonds
Anytime anybody jumps out at me, I scream.
~ Cobie Smulders
I'm not the biggest horror fan. I get scared so easily. If I'm just walking on set, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I scream and jump and freak out.
~ Taissa Farmiga
I looked up to find a slim blond figure standing in the doorway to the kitchen. For a frozen second, I looked at him and he looked at me, and then I screamed and threw my coffee, which hit him square in the groin.
~ Karen Chance
Her shoes squished with the movement and, as she peered uncomprehendingly down at them, a tadpole emerged from the leg of her jeans and flopped about on the ground. " Eew! " She pointed a shaking finger at it. "A tadpole. I had a tadpole in my pants!" "Lucky tadpole," he murmured.
~ Karen Marie Moning
The sudden screaming of women woke Tuco, who might have gone unnoticed had he lain quietly beneath the stone lip of the well.
~ Brian Fox
Hands up! Hands up! Everybody on the floor!" The effect was akin to three wild-eyed berserkers storming a prayer meeting.
~ Bryan Burrough
Poor bastard. Wait 'till he sees the bats.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Oh, it's you, Curran's voice said quietly. I thought it was an elephant.
~ Ilona Andrews
The thing I have always tried to do is surprise people: to present them with something they didn't expect.
~ Christopher Lee
Crokus jumped at a faint plopping sound from the stairwell. He laid his hands on his knives, tensing.
~ Steven Erikson
And where did you spring from, Oskan? I'd already had enough shocks without you leaping out of the shadows like a skinny ghost!
~ Stuart Hill
After what I seen today, I'll never sleep again.
~ Sue Townsend
the sapphire depthof my own love...startlesand warmsand wounds my soul.
~ Sanober Khan