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Quotes About Scaring

I'm not scaring anybody for no money!
~ Peter Lorre
The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
~ Leo Kottke
The media, the corporations, the politicians…have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.
~ Michael Moore
The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. "Smoke and fire," she said. "Clanging on metal all day long. You're scaring away the birds!" "Oh, no, not the birds!
~ Rick Riordan
She came for the deer," I whispered. Seeing the cougar from another angle, I noticed her hanging teats. "She's lactating, which means she has cubs close by. The ATVs have probably been scaring away the game. She's getting desperate." "I appreciate the Nature Channel commentary," Corey said. "But it's really not helping, Maya." "Sorry.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Zander remained, his polar bear taking in the surroundings. Jaycee saw by the look in his eyes that he was enjoying scaring the Fae shitless very much.
~ Jennifer Ashley
If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Inna Bohoslovska is scaring everyone by repeating that Putin wants war.
~ Andrey Kurkov
Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?
~ Libba Bray
Listen carefully, and don't panic." With his eyes still on that wretched spot behind her, he slid his right hand slowly to the hilt of his saber. "What am I not supposed to be panicking about?" she snapped. He was scaring her to death, the wretch, and probably for nothing!
~ Sabrina Jeffries
The most popular answer to this question among those who take the phenomenon seriously is that the aliens do not dare to manifest themselves more directly. Government leaders would panic, might attack them, and surely would not know how to avoid scaring the rest of us.
~ John E. Mack
They had decided that BO and halitosis were worked out, or nearly, and had been racking their brains for a long time to think of some new way of scaring the public. Then some bright spark had suggested, What about smelling feet? That field had never been exploited and had immense possibilities.
~ George Orwell
For a moment his voice stilled the hubbub in the room. Dogs can arouse grander passions then love. 'A retriever's s'posed to retrieve what's shot yes? 'Sall right for you. Spaniels only have to rampage around the bushes, scaring out anything that's stupid enough to pay attention to them. They can't retrieve worth a damn anyway.
~ Gerald Hammond
I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
~ Alan Cranston
I have a different relationship with Chucky because he's been on top of my bookshelf in the corner of my living room for my entire life. He was a great tool for scaring friends, and when I see him in different theme parks I've been to, or in commercials, my heart swells a little bit, and I'm like, 'Aww! It's my Chucky!'
~ Fiona Dourif
Raven mumbled something. "Eh? What was that? Speak up! Don't mumble like a caterpillar." "I said, I don't want to scare them." Baba Yaga picked up a blue spray bottle and squirted Raven in the face with water, making Raven blink. "This is how I train my cats not to jump up on my spell table. They learn after a while. Maybe you will, too.
~ Shannon Hale
It's fear, dude, just fear and you don't have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn't about killing or even hurting the other guy, it's about scaring him enough to call it a day.
~ Max Brooks
You're scaring the dog," Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.
~ Garth Stein
Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter." "Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-" "It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're using logic. That's scaring me." Walters eyebrows knitted. "So much for terms of endearment
~ Bryan Davis
Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.
~ Ilona Andrews
My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone
~ Caroline Kepnes
If anything, 'Friday Night Dinner' is quite mean. All these pranks that we play on each other, there's a lot of hitting and slapping and jumping at each other trying to scare each other. But underneath it all it is a family, so we all love each other.
~ Simon Bird
Morelli looked dazed. What good is a gun without bullets? It's good for scaring people. Or you can hit people with it. Or you can use it to break windows … or crack walnuts.
~ Janet Evanovich
Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
~ Dale Peck