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Quotes About Menace

I have had death threats from people with fixations.
~ Enya
He had seemed daunting when I first saw him off the trail, hulking over the Jewish couple as if he might carve into their backs and eat them. Now
~ Ben Marcus
I guess there are certain conventions that come with film and with scoring film. So maybe one of those is menace in a lower register. It's trying to evoke some sense of chaos and adventure.
~ Thomas Newman
What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
~ Nick Saban
The stars behind the glowing, swelling Earth suddenly filled with menace; he imagined them as the glints of wolves' eyes in an infinite night-bound forest.
~ Greg Bear
All my life I'd been a fighter. I was always ready, too ready, to fight for what I loved, and against what I deplored. In the end, I became the expression of that fight, and my real nature was concealed behind a mask of menace and hostility. The message of my face and my body's movement was, like that of a lot of other hard men, Don't fuck with me. In the end, I became so good at expressing the sentiment that the whole of my life became the message.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The monster fills the eye and the mind, and for a second or two there seems to be nothing else in the world but the metal and the noise and the terror.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The continuing silence and expectant seriousness in the room filled me with a chill of menace.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The Asian male has an interesting history as far as Western appropriation. At one point, we were completely sexless Chinamen building the railroads. Then, World War II came around, and it was like, Asian guys are coming after the white women. We became a menace for a second.
~ Freddie Wong
Death by rats would be the worst.
~ Russell Howard
It is impossible to communicate to people who have not experienced it the undefinable menace of total rationalism.
~ Czeslaw Milosz
I think that true horror is accomplished by slowly getting into your brain. The old way is much more scary.
~ Sergio Aragones
Okay. Take a peek, but I swear if you try anything funny, I'll beat your head in with my flashlight.
~ Shannon K. Butcher
Dez kissed his cheek and hissed in his ear, "You say a word—they won't find your body for months." Wolves were a smart breed and always knew when a predator meaner than them was near.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Im the blackest villain of all time.
~ Ian McDiarmid
The scariest monster in the world is human beings and what we are capable of, especially when we get together.
~ Jordan Peele
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.
~ Mary Shelley
Shut up or I'll kill you.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of that Elf Hotel - it had sharp candy-cane spires that could easily impale someone. If anyone was ever going to be killed by an Elf Hotel, it would be my parents.
~ Maureen Johnson
Above it hung a painting of a man with a shotgun and a dog, which felt like more of a warning than a greeting.
~ Maureen Johnson
I think Lucas is going to Misery your ass,' Stevie said. 'Sorry about your ankles.
~ Maureen Johnson
air of silent malevolence, like a puffed, venomous mushroom
~ Ayn Rand
They had chickens at one time, including this rooster with the mind of a serial killer that gave me bad dreams.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
bloody father! And yer knows what's in store for yer if Big Jack Harte gets his hands on yer. He'll make bloody mashed potatoes out of yer!
~ Barbara Taylor Bradford