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Quotes About Intimidating

And then two footmen staggered forward. They were bearing between them a flower arrangement so brilliant it was nearly 'sentient.' A profusion of roses, the heads of which were nearly as pulsatingly crimson and large as actual hearts sprung from a luxurious froth of ferny greenery and minuscule lacy white flowers. It was magnificently intimidating and almost indecently sensual. The whole thing was the height of a three-year-old child.
~ Julie Anne Long
My uncle's a big man, muscular. He's given to bulk in his shoulders.Yes, I suppose he could be a little frightening. So is his wife, Sara interjected with a smile. I couldn't tell them apart. He pinched her backside for being insolent. Dunnford has a mustache. So does she.
~ Julie Garwood
I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, "If you tell anyone what you've seen..."
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.
~ James Patterson
No. I don't have the patience, and I'm not very tactful. People say I can be frightening.
~ Zaha Hadid
silence and calm are more intimidating than any outburst,
~ David Lagercrantz
Everyone keeps saying, "Oh my God, oh my God, how intimidating." It's like saying, "How could you date Jennifer Aniston after she's been with Brad Pitt?" I don't care.
~ Adam Carolla
I'm not a good person to have as an enemy; say nice things about me.
~ Janice Dickinson
A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
~ Anthony Hopkins
There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.
~ Peter Benchley, Jaws
Hrabosky looks fierce in that Fu Manchu haircut.
~ Jerry Coleman
He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)
~ Igor Stravinsky
How easy it is for men to talk about beauty, and how subtly intimidating when they do.
~ Alex Shakar
Old Trafford is not really intimidating, no. I think the Man United fans are always behind the team and it's a fantastic place to play football.
~ Ronald Koeman
Acting can be very intimidating, because you are not in a scene alone, you have to be in sync with so many other people.
~ Lisa Haydon
German professors of that time were like God, only more frightening.
~ Richard Fortey
Even from a distance, he looked like somebody you didn't want to know better.
~ Richard Peck
Annabeth turned the blade of her drakon-bone sword, which Percy had to admit made her look pretty intimidating and hot in a "Barbarian Princess" kind of way. "So I guess your Death Mist is pretty useless, then," she said. The goddess bared her broken
~ Rick Riordan
glancing back I got my first clear look at the monster. He was seven feet tall, easy, his arms and legs like something from the cover of Muscle Man magazine-bulging biceps and triceps and a bunch of other 'ceps, all stuffed like baseballs under vein-webbed skin. He wore no clothes except underwear-I mean, bright white fruit of the Looms.
~ Rick Riordan
intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Luego éste prosiguió, era de esos hombres que no pierden el hilo, suelen ser personajes temibles—:
~ Javier Marías
Recalled Chuck Clanton, a junior cornerback: "When I saw him the first time I was like, 'Jesus Christ, what the fuck is that?' When he walked, his thighs naturally rubbed together. There was no fat. None. He had Earl Campbell thighs. But he was faster than Earl Campbell. If he had three percent body fat, that'd be a lot. He was all muscle. Like a tank from the future.
~ Jeff Pearlman
curiosity is accessible to everyone. Passion can seem intimidatingly out of reach at times—a distant tower of flame, accessible only to geniuses and to those who are specially touched by God. But curiosity is a milder, quieter, more welcoming, and more democratic entity. The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than the stakes of passion.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
But no one would ever have dared make fun of her, even in private: there was something about her that inspired fear and discouraged meanness.
~ Amelie Nothomb