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Quotes About Startle

Whoa dude. My belt came undone when you said that.
~ Unknown
So much alarmed that she is quite alarming
~ Lord Byron
O guarda il demonietto! come fugge!
~ Unknown
HolyGolfBalls
~ Jill Shalvis
Oh, my! Well . . . that
~ Joanne Fluke
Theres a difference between being scared and being spooked.
~ Unknown
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
~ Horace
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.
~ Vincent Price
Even shit going plash sometimes makes a splash.
~ Unknown
The flea chomped him hard on the left ear. Dor bashed at it—and boxed his ear. The pain was brief but intense.
~ Piers Anthony
I gabbed Ivy's arm. Look. Ivy. Something just moved - by that tombstone. We both stared into the gray light. Oh, noooo, I moaned. I watched, trembling in horror as someone climbed out of a grave.
~ R.L. Stine
him!" I cried. "Somebody
~ R.L. Stine
He rose to his feet and padded down the last few steps silently, came up behind Kim, and leaned over her to say, "I vant to drink your blood" in a heavy, fake Dracula accent. She shrieked, flailed, and a zombie ate her brains on-screen.!
~ Rachel Caine
What's dropped your heart into your shoes?
~ Dean Koontz
WHEN A FIERCE-LOOKING GUY COMES OUT of a mirror as though it's a doorway, and when he grabs for you and snags your shirt with his fingertips, you could be excused for wetting your pants or for losing total control of your sphincter, so
~ Dean Koontz
The only thing he'd needed to scare away with a long blast of the horn had been raccoons that approached him hissing and baring their teeth.
~ Dean Koontz
chin—"and there it was. I near beshit myself.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Christ! Ye scairt the bowels out of me.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Speak of the devil and he appears.
~ Italian proverb
Oh fug!' Lon cried, suddenly, awfully audible.
~ Dan Abnett
Nothing woke up a man as quickly in the morning as a scorpion in his pants.
~ Unknown
Surprise is an emotion we feel when we encounter the unexpected
~ Daniel Gilbert
People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
~ Trixie Mattel