Quotes About Startle

What?" Annika shrieked. Aneurism in five, four, three, two . . .

It...It...It's... The peeping tom!!

screamed and jumped out of the

Everything okay?" Jake appeared at her side. "Would you stop sneaking up on me?" she said, unwilling to admit that the insanely loud washing machine may have disguised his entrance. He

You'll know they've spotted us when they screech," Skulduggery told her. The creatures screeched.

Someone was breathing. Behind him. Someone was breathing on his neck. The knowledge froze him, froze the cry of "Jesus fuck!" in his throat. He turned with an incredible slowness..

Even though Sean still held my head down I was the only one who thought to ask "Who's driving the boat?" Over the motor I heard girls screaming at us the instant before we crashed.

Holly, I wish you wouldn't appear like that. I'm a bodyguard. I get jumpy.

Willard jerked a little. "That's chilly, Constable. Did you just murder me?

The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked.

If you said 'Boo' to me, I wouldn't sleep for two weeks! I don't like scary movies.

You know when you go into your pocket and feel another hand in there? Well, that's Premier Kathleen Wynne.

The joy of making a genre film is that you have audiences in that place, and it's a perfect place to start because all it takes is finding ways to startle them out of that complacency and encourage a different kind of engagement.

One of the worst ways of being aroused from sound sleep, is by the noise of a dragon and a unicorn playing tag.

Christ on a bike. -- Lola Sugarman

Non intendevano aggredirmi, ma se Zane avesse continuato a saltellare qua e là come una versione punk di Tigro avrei potuto sparargli per sbaglio...

stopped what they were doing and ran out of doors to stare. The news spread from the prison as fast

If you hear any screaming," he said "that'll be me.

I sat up and the room was full of a man with a gun.

The challenge for all of us in this day and age is to distinguish between the merely surprising and the truly amazing.

Now, what happens whenever there's a loud sound is that it startles us, right? And we arrest what we're doing, and we try to localize that sound because that sound could be a threat. That's something that's hard-wired in our bodies.

One time, I was literally stopped on the street, literally and physically whipped around by this guy who looked at my face and was like, 'Are you Felix?' I looked very different then. I was like, 'Yah... Oh, yah!' I was stunned and slightly frightened.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

Arus the watchman grasped his crossbow with shaky hands, and he felt beads of clammy perspiration on his skin as he stared at the unlovely corpse sprawling on the polished floor before him. It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.