Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Crace

There is no comparison. The American landscape is so much more dangerous. They have real snakes, mountain lions, bears; we only have adders, and they're more frightened of us than we are of them.

William Blake

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

Greg Boyle

The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.

Barbara Boxer

They are going to feel very frightened and anxious.

Jamie Foxx

As a kid, I was scared of losing my mind. In Terrell, Texas, where I grew up, there was a guy that would walk down the street talking to himself. And I used to watch him and feel uneasy. And there was a sanitarium where people would say, 'That's where all the crazy people go.' It really sort of frightened me.

Jane Green

I consider myself pretty fearless, but the one thing I have always been frightened of is cancer.

Kristin Scott Thomas

I tend to do things that I'm very frightened of. That's what I do.

Naveen Andrews

The unknown is always frightening.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

Chris Bohjalian

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

Karen Smith

We're talking about a frightened little seven-year-old girl here.

What always frightens people is personal exposure, ... Nothing hits home like pricking yourself with a needle and signing with blood.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Barbra Streisand

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

William Shakespeare

O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?

An Innocent Man Is Never Frightened By the Truth; But A Guilty Man Will Try To Hide It As Long As He Can.

David Hoffman

Sarah Kolb was looking straight ahead, looking frightened and not participating in any way.

I hate to think I ever make my husband frightened or unhappy, but I suspect I do.

Edward Herrmann

Growing up as a kid in Detroit, way back, there was a movie station that would show old kinescope reproductions of old movies, and I remember seeing Bela Lugosi for the first time and being duly frightened out of my wits.

Gerald Scarfe

And when Roger talks about the frightened ones running away from the bombs, I immediately thought of my days when I was young and I had to wear these gas masks.

What frightens me is not the price of gas but the availability of gas, ... It just worries me.

Michael Faraday

There’s nothing quite as frightening as someone who knows they are right.

Rachel Swirsky

Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.

Bill Cosby

People will frighten you about a graduation...They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

Robert Nelson

(Moss) was going really slow. Apparently, he didn't want to hurt her. I think he was just trying to frighten her into moving.

Never be frightened to take a profit. Better in your pocket then theirs.

She didn't tell me nearly as much. I think she didn't want to frighten me.

Tom Stoppard

If I see an actor in a role that is really terrifying, no matter how many times I meet him socially, I'm still frightened of him. I think he's going to hit me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die.

Billy McNeill

Jimmy practically played Inter Milan on his own. There was nothing he was ever frightened of, he was brilliant.

Bill Vaughan

It is better to be killed than frightened to death.

I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.

It frightened me. I thought he was having a heart attack.