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Quotes About Menacing

They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me—Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Curtis Blaydes' ground and pound is really scary. Like, really, really scary.
~ Ariel Helwani
I sit on the end of the bed, trying to look as nonlethal as an extra from Night of the Living Dead can.
~ Richard Kadrey
Something evil and full of testosterone must be smiling down on me tonight.
~ Richard Kadrey
September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took down the maps in the classroom, And when they were safely furled, We told the young what they wanted to hear, That they were immune from a menacing world. But history isn't a folded-up map, Or an unread textbook tome; Now we know history's a fireman's child Waiting at home alone.
~ Richard Peck
There was a malevolence about them, a sinister feel as their eyes locked onto us and didn't let go.
~ Richelle Mead
What do you write in those forms?" I asked. "Nothing. I just do this to look threatening.
~ Jennifer Echols
BAD HALLOWEEN
~ Rob Harrell
Everyone turned towards me. The two female vamps smiled, most unpleasantly. They looked at me like I was a piece of candy and they wondered what sort of center I had. Soft and gooey, or hard with a nut in the middle? I'd had men undress me with their eyes, but I'd never had anything trying to picture what I'd look like with my skin off. Yikes.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Well, that's an evil smile.
~ James Patterson
killers are like the army, dull and dangerous simultaneously.
~ Derek Raymond
If the atmosphere is to be foreboding, you must forebode on every page. If it is to be cold, you must chill, not once or twice, but until your readers are shivering.
~ Jerome Stern
He can be lethal death.
~ Jerry Coleman
They glanced at one another like tigers taking measure of a menacing new rival. But in this kind of jungle you could never be sure where the real danger lurked.
~ Erich Segal
I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]
~ Ernest Hemingway
Cahir, wrinkling his brow imperiously, shouted back something menacing about imperial service, backing up his words with the classically military and ever effective 'for fuck's sake'.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Thus on the tenth day of September we all crossed to the left bank of the Yaruga, only once being hailed by the guard, at whom Cahir, wrinkling his brow imperiously, shouted back something menacing about imperial service, backing up his words with the classically military and ever effective 'for fuck's sake'. Before anyone had time to grow curious about us, we were already on the left bank of the Yaruga and deep in the Riverdell forest...
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I have one of those faces that you're not going to forget. Kids are scared of me.
~ Barry Trotz
I don't intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what's going to happen from one day to the next.
~ Alex Colville
He was far and away the most daunting creature she'd ever encountered.
~ Anna Campbell
Geryon was a monster everything about him was red
~ Anne Carson
Under that smiling exterior," Casey said ominously as we took our seats, "lies the soul of a ruthless killer.
~ Robin Brande
they could see them coming now, many dark figures, blossoming with fire.
~ Louis L'Amour
Cut your head off," whispered Never, eyes all scary-wide. "Pull your guts out and cook 'em," growled Jolly Yon. "Skin your face off and wear it as a mask," rumbled Brack. "Use your cock for a spoon," said Wonderful. They all thought about that for a moment.
~ Joe Abercrombie