Top 100 Quotes About Scaring
#1. The alt-right 2016 is like punk rock 1977: it's daring, new, socially unacceptable, inevitable, and scaring the crap out of everyone.
Michael Stutz
#2. One of the symptoms of having a broken-heart is the fact that even ghosts will give up on the hope of scaring you as you have already lived through your worst fear.
Faraaz Kazi
#3. It's President [Barack] Obama sounding the alarm, scaring the crap out of the American people. Saying if you don't raise the debt feeling, we're going to default.
Eric Bolling
#4. My dad believed in scaring us as we were growing up. Scaring the boys who wanted to date us more.
Karin Slaughter
#5. You must torment people with your artistic delight, scaring mother and grandmother in the middle of the night.
Sergei Parajanov
#6. Holy bejeezus," Lula said, eyes bugged out, looking at the building. "This is scaring the crap out of me. This is like where Dracula would live if he didn't have any money and was a crack-head. I bet it's filled with rabid bats and killer snakes and hairy spiders as big as dinner plated.
Janet Evanovich
#7. But to yell at your creativity, saying, "You must earn money for me!" is sort of like yelling at a cat; it has no idea what you're talking about, and all you're doing is scaring it away, because you're making really loud noises and your face looks weird when you do that.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#8. ...causing her eyes to bulge and her tongue to flick from behind her luscious lips, scaring away insects." - Amok 2015
Fred Barnett
#9. I have an almost seven year old ... I think it's essential to be consistent with kids. And truthful, without scaring them. I could go on for hours on this one.
Stephen Collins
#10. Please don't say any more, you're scaring me. - Andy Smithson
L.R.W. Lee
#11. When I can stand up without scaring the shit out of a hospital full of people, will you maybe want to go get married or something? Because I'm scared to death I'm going to lose you if I don't make you legally mine.
Mercy Celeste
#12. Innocent parents might have thought that a musical cartoon version of a fairy tale would be a child's ideal introduction to movie magic. Yet Walt Disney taught moral lessons in the most useful way: by scaring the poop out of the little ones.
Richard Corliss
#13. They had decided that BO and halitosis were worked out, or nearly, and had been racking their brains for a long time to think of some new way of scaring the public. Then some bright spark had suggested, What about smelling feet? That field had never been exploited and had immense possibilities.
George Orwell
#15. And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.
William Steig
#16. Oh man, a six pack of soda - five dollars, bag of beef jerky - six dollars, scaring the living shit out of your best friend - priceless,
Dominick Anderson
#17. There aren't enough people who are scaring the kind of people who work at these record companies.
Greg Ginn
#18. Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring hikers out in the Broken into thinking he was Bigfoot.
Ilona Andrews
#19. Love is not about feeling safe and secure; it's about scaring the pressure out of yourself but pushing forward anyway, because you know it's worth it.
Auliq Ice
#20. The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
Leo Kottke
#21. I am different when my nails are done. I am more dynamic. I gesticulate more, I am better at scaring my staff. I can indicate impatience by drumming on tabletops and I can wrap up a meeting with a few choice clatters.
Marian Keyes
#22. Don't you dare die. You have to live so I can curse you up and down for scaring me like this
Kady Cross
#23. You'll survive, mu Tara. We'll make sure of it. (Nykyrian)
You can't guarantee that. You said it yourself. Even you're living on borrowed time, waiting for one of them to kill you. (Kiara)
And you said I was scaring her? Damn, bud. You're socially awkward to the extreme. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. You have blood on your face; you've better washed it before scaring the girls again.
Linda Hamonou
#25. You're scaring the dog, Trish pointed out. She rarely called me by name. They do that in
prisoner of war camps, I've heard. Depersonalization.
Garth Stein
#26. There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.
Jim Butcher
#27. Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.
Henry David Thoreau
#28. When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
Alan Cumming
#29. The media, the corporations, the politicians ... have all done such a good job of scaring the American public, it's come to the point where they don't need to give any reason at all.
Michael Moore
#30. People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.
Nick Cave
#31. Okay, that was so far down Creepy Lane that it had intersected with Scaring the Hell Out of Me Avenue. I hated that avenue.
Devon Monk
#32. Just in case you thought elephants were all sweetness, I can attest to the fact that this one had the time of her life scaring the bejeezus out of those dudes.
James Patterson
#33. I feel like if it's not scaring you, you're doing it wrong.
Anna Kendrick
#34. Keep telling yourself that. Thanks for scaring them off. Turn around so I can get dressed."
"No."
"No?"
"No." He stares straight into my eyes. "I didn't scare them off for you. I did it for me. I'm coming in with you.
Miranda Kenneally
#35. Scaring people is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it.
Stephen King
#36. The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.
Stephen King
#37. The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte
#38. I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.
Nina Dobrev
#39. Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
Laura Marano
#40. Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.
Noah Lukeman
#41. To me she said, "It's this stupid gotcha thing, they've been doing it for weeks now. Leaping out at each other and us, scaring the hell out of everyone."
"It's a game of wits," Bert said to me.
"Half-wits," Kristy added.
Sarah Dessen
#42. Is this scaring you, Tris?"
"No," I croak. I clear my throat. "Not really. I'm only ... afraid of what I want."
"What do you want?" Then his face tightens. "Me?" Slowly I nod. He nods too, and takes my hands in his gently.
Veronica Roth
#43. Ready or not, here I come
I'm so tired of this dumb game of hide and seek
Olly olly oxen free
Show yourself, you're scaring me
Come out, come out, where ever you are
You've taken this thing way too far
Sonya Sones
#44. While he disliked the idea of scaring her, ignorance had killed more than its fair share of people, and he wanted her aware of the danger.
Grace Draven
#45. I try to be fussy about the parts I play. I think that's quite prudent, it means you're stretching different muscles, and you're scaring yourself by doing something which is out of your comfort zone.
Matthew Macfadyen
#46. What would you have said"-her eyes drift to the floor-"if the cameras weren't there?"
And I mean every single word that comes out of my mouth.
"That you're scaring the hell out of me.
Cassie Mae
#47. If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.
Ted Turner
#48. Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.
Michael Callahan
#49. Gee, Vernon, now you're scaring me. Not the union rep." She gave a deliberate shudder.
"You won't be so smart when you're hit with a lawsuit, and I start bleeding that rich husband you hooked."
"My God, Peabody, a lawsuit. I feel faint."
"Don't worry, Lieutenant, I'll catch you.
J.D. Robb
#50. You don't have to call me Livvie if you don't want to, Caleb. To be honest, it's kinda scaring me. You're scaring me
C.J. Roberts
#51. Diesel sucked air. "You keep fondling me like that, and I might have to marry you."
"I'm not fondling you. I'm looking for the keys!"
"Could you look a little more gently? You're scaring my boys.
Janet Evanovich
#52. When I was a kid, I hated being talked to as a kid. I don't know if all kids feel that way, but I seem to remember awful things in the crib, something like people doing baby talk in the crib and sticking their big, fat faces in there and scaring me. So I always talk to kids as if they were a person.
Michael Feldman
#53. I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.
Tom Felton
#54. Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls?
Libba Bray
#55. You have better luck than you think you do," Cian said firmly.
Turning back toward him, she said, "Yeah? Prove it?"
You found me."
Yeah, and awakening your inner vampire, scaring the shit out of your
girlfriend, and screwing up your life."
Then that's my bad luck," he corrected her.
Rhiannon Frater
#56. Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.
Stephen King
#57. You think I'm pretty?" I ask.
"We need to stop talking," he says a little gruffly. "We're scaring the fish off."
"Okay, okay." I bite my lip, then smile.
Cynthia Hand
#58. My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone.
Caroline Kepnes
#59. Scaring someone's the hardest thing to do, and that's why most of these scary movies are not scary. They're sick, but not scary. There's a lot of sickness out there, of people who then sit there and watch it, which I think is absolutely dismaying.
Ridley Scott
#60. Ashley tugged on his sleeve. "You're scaring me Walter."
"Sorry I guess talking about ghosts is-"
"It's not that," she interrupted shaking her head. "You're using logic. That's scaring me."
Walters eyebrows knitted. "So much for terms of endearment
Bryan Davis
#61. YouTube clips get millions, billions of hits. Reality TV programs have their own channels. How can movies attempt to compete with these kinds of numbers? And do we even need to? Are we scaring ourselves by unnecessary comparisons, by not comparing apples with apples?
Alison Owen
#62. But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?
Lynda Barry
#63. Science fiction has done a really good job of scaring us into thinking that computers shouldn't get too smart, because as soon as they get really smart, they're going to take over the world and kill us, or something like that. But why would they do that?
Luis Von Ahn
#64. I liked forgetting my cares. Thanks to wine, you didn't forget them, they just stopped scaring you for a while.
Andre Aciman
#65. My neighborhood was like 'The Wonder Years.' We played until 10 o'clock at night. We used to tell scary stories. I was the one scaring them. We used to play football by this place called the Myer's House. It was a big, spooky house with the gables; we'd hang out there and scare each other.
Richard Chizmar
#66. In Venice in the Middle Ages there was once a profession for a man called a codega
a fellow you hired to walk in front of you at night with a lit lantern, showing you the way, scaring off thieves and demons, bringing you confidence and protection through the dark streets.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#67. I don't think just scaring people is enough. That worked during the freeze days to a major extent, but we really didn't achieve that much even at that time. You have to have more, you have to give people hope and a vision of a better world.
Alan Cranston
#68. Why, the whole point, the real sting of it lay in the fact that continually, even in the moment of the acutest spleen, I was inwardly conscious with shame that I was not only not a spiteful but not even an embittered man, that I was simply scaring sparrows at random
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#69. Life was good. Everything was going right. It was almost scaring him because usually when things were going this well it was the calm before the storm hit.
Michelle Sutton
#70. You're scaring the help," Rhys said. He watched her now with his dark eyes.
"I scare a lot of people," Nyx said.
Kameron Hurley
#71. Art is only great if it's uncodifiable. If art isn't scaring you, if it's not making you upset, then I don't think it's actually doing anything.
Dale Peck
#72. Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.
Frank Miller
#74. Can I buy you an ice cream beforeI take you home? I feel like it's the least I can do after scaring your shirt off.
Tamara Summers
#75. If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language ... This plan would have the advantage of scaring off all amateur authors, retired politicians, country doctors ... who would not have the patience to learn the secret language.
Robertson Davies
#76. Give a smile always, not once a while. Life's great when you wake up and ignore the scaring nightmares you had. Forget the bitter bile; life's sweet beyond River Nile. File your teeth out and smile!
Israelmore Ayivor
#77. Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.
Taylor Swift
#78. I generally follow my own compass and make films about what's scaring me.
Eli Roth
#79. Scaring away new customers is worse than losing old customers.
Jason Fried
#80. Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.
Karin Slaughter
#81. You can't kill your way to security and you can't lead by scaring people.
Bruce Springsteen
#82. Listen carefully, and don't panic." With his eyes still on that wretched spot behind her, he slid his right hand slowly to the hilt of his saber.
"What am I not supposed to be panicking about?" she snapped. He was scaring her to death, the wretch, and probably for nothing!
Sabrina Jeffries
#83. You know, at least Gabriel showed up announced like a gentleman. He even told Mila that she looked beautiful. You and your toothpick just show up, scaring me half to death.
Skyla Madi
#84. If you're dressed for my funeral, it's too casual. If it's just street clothes, then you must be scaring the tourists.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#85. The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise.
"Smoke and fire," she said. "Clanging on metal all day long. You're scaring away the birds!"
"Oh, no, not the birds!
Rick Riordan
#86. He was scaring me and not in a good 'I want to blow you and then let you fuck me kind of way' more of a 'I'm thinking of stabbing you in the heart to see if you've misplaced it' kind of way.
Pepper Winters
#87. I'm afraid of pretty much everything, but there's something inside me that is addicted to scaring myself.
Gina Carano
#88. Inna Bohoslovska is scaring everyone by repeating that Putin wants war.
Andrey Kurkov
#89. Morelli looked dazed. "What good is a gun without bullets?" "It's good for scaring people. Or you can hit people with it. Or you can use it to break windows ... or crack walnuts.
Janet Evanovich
#90. I'm going to have to come up with a new word for "excited". Something preferably a verb that describes the simultaneous actions of jumping up and down squealing giggling and generally scaring the hell out of the cats. I'll call it vrasting.
This morning I vrasted.
Josie
#91. Jackson Rathbone - he is a prankster. Constantly scaring people from behind, stuff like that.
Michael Welch
#92. I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.
Daniel Jacobs
#94. No one could match Howlin' Wolf for the singular ability to rock the house down to the foundation while simultaneously scaring its patrons out of its wits.
Cub Koda
#95. Whatever is scaring you, bring it into the light. It's strength will fade
Kerry Reichs
#96. Dude, you're scaring the crap out of me,' said Nick. 'I'm serious, I literally have no crap right now.
Mark Frost
#97. That I was simply scaring sparrows at random and amusing myself by it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#98. And he said, "The joy of scaring is a deep and lasting one, and I never tire of it."
Said I, after a minute of thought, "It is true; for I too have known that joy."
Said he, "Only those who are stuffed with straw can know it.
Kahlil Gibran
#99. Do you know how pale & wanton thrillful comes death on a strange hour unannounced, unplanned for like a scaring over-friendly guest you've brought to bed Death makes angels of us all & gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as raven's claws
Jim Morrison
#100. I was horrified of the dark. I realized that the only way I could get over that fear was by scaring other people, so I became obsessed with ghost stories, drawing monsters, watching monster movies, sneaking into horror movies, and it's just been the love of my life forever.
Matthew Gray Gubler
