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Quotes About Menacing

Punisher is scary; he should be scary.
~ Greg Rucka
made them so terrifying, like a wholly malevolent space creature from a sci-fi movie.
~ Jon Ronson
The clouds were still bunched up in the sky like a gang on a street corner, and it looked to me like they had the sun pretty effectively intimidated.
~ Jonathan Lethem
Hey", he said again. "I'm gonna go down to Mrs. Jackson's place and murder her whole family. Then I'm gonna fly to the moon and eat some chickens. Be right back." "Okay," she murmured.
~ James Dashner
Well, that's an evil smile...
~ James Patterson
Well, that's an evil smile...
~ James Patterson
but his face is a bad face. Cruel, hawklike, predatory.
~ Agatha Christie
The stupidest question I get is 'Is Goldberg your real name?' I tell people, 'No, my real name is Killer, but I wanted a much more menacing name, so I picked Goldberg.'
~ Bill Goldberg
I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing.
~ Richard C. Armitage
It shouldn't have been surprising that Andrew lived in what looked like a serial killer's murder mansion.
~ Karin Slaughter
Man, some open doors were not welcoming, and that was so the case here—less hi-how're-ya, more come-in-so-your-skin-can-be-used-to-make-a-super-hero-cape-for-one-of-Hannibal-Lecter's-patients.
~ J.R. Ward
You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.
~ James Patterson
By the end of 1915 the Allies found the situation so menacing that the Russians, supported by the 8,000-strong Russian-officered Persian Cossacks, occupied the north of the country, taking over the capital city of Teheran and, with it, the weak, recently crowned young Shah. The most pro-German of the politicians fled, initially to the holy city of Qum, and later to Kermanshah, near the Ottoman frontier, where a German puppet government was established, backed by Ottoman troops.
~ David Fromkin
she seemed cold—like a predator eyeing its prey.
~ David Lagercrantz
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
~ Anthony Hopkins
He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)
~ Igor Stravinsky
Now and again the gentlemen, warned by a menacing hum, slapped their cheeks, their brows or their bald crowns; but they did so as furtively as possible, for Mr. Halston Raycie, on whose verandah they sat, would not admit that there were mosquitoes at High Point.
~ Edith Wharton
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
~ Aleister Crowley
Even from a distance, he looked like somebody you didn't want to know better.
~ Richard Peck
I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.
~ Rick Riordan
At some time in the ninth century one could have looked down the Seine and seen the prow of a Viking ship coming up the river. Looked at today in the British Museum it is a powerful work of art; but to the mother of a family trying to settle down in her little hut, it would have seemed less agreeable – as menacing to her civilisation as the periscope of a nuclear submarine.
~ Kenneth Clark
And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.
~ William Steig
We may prefer to see ourselves as masters of nature, controllers of all change and progress, exempt from the seasons of history. Yet the more we balk at seasonality and the more we try to eradicate it, the more menacing we render our view of time—and of the future.
~ William Strauss
Luego éste prosiguió, era de esos hombres que no pierden el hilo, suelen ser personajes temibles—:
~ Javier Marías