Top 100 Scare Quotes
#1. By the time he graduates, projected to be by his thirtieth birthday, Wheeler's transcript will be a meme used to scare children into studying harder.
Kurt Dinan
#2. Drive over a few of the little brats. That'll scare them off."
"I ... I don't think I can do that, sir ... I just don't think we're capable of going that fast, sir.
Derek Landy
#3. Monsters don't scare me at all; I think creepy is scarier than gore. I tend to read more thrillers and mysteries than horror, though. I like a good whodunnit. If I want scary, I tend to reach for a movie. I think it's a great medium for horror.
Sarah Pinborough
#4. Elena: I guess a dying woman can be stupid if she wants. I'm crazy about you, Archangel. You scare the shit out of me at times, but I want to dance with you anyway.
Nalini Singh
#5. I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Jim Carrey
#6. The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.
Boris Becker
#7. I think I scare people. I really have to watch myself.
Joanna Cassidy
#8. I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.
Simon Pegg
#9. Doesn't it scare you having your death close by all the time?" said Lyra. "Why ever would it? If he's there, you can keep an eye on him. I'd be a lot more nervous not knowing where he was.
Philip Pullman
#10. I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
Sally Mann
#11. Don't protest outside of a rich man's house in the daytime, you'll just scare the maid, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger's job.
Craig Ferguson
#12. You have to be like a lion and a fox. The fox is smart enough to recognize traps, and the lion is strong enough to scare away the wolves. Be like a lion and a fox, and no one will ever beat you
Carlo Gambino
#13. I become an actress to do things that scare the sh*t out of me and I felt like I didn't stand a chance to get this part because people have preconceived notions about me, but if they gave me the part, I would do everything in my power to not screw it up.
Lizzy Caplan
#14. I'm always nice. And I don't scare people.'
Ashley smiled sweetly and patted my back where her hand was resting.
'Of course not, sweetie. You're always sunshine and rainbows.'
I was going to sunshine and rainbows her face if she didn't watch it.
Tammy Blackwell
#15. Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.
Maria Shriver
#16. Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.
Bruce Schneier
#17. Obviously, when I had the scare with the blood clots, I mean, that's the kind of thing that you don't want to have happen, obviously, and you worry about what it means for the rest of your career.
Tom Glavine
#18. Scarecrows weren't made to scare the crows, they were made to scare the corn
Laura Ruby
#19. Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
Vanessa Hudgens
#20. Horror movies scare me. I don't really watch them. I'm not a big horror genre fan. I like certain classic horror - like 'Alien', 'Jaws', 'The Exorcist', stuff like that.
Katharine Isabelle
#21. The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.
Dr. Dre
#23. Britney: My love doesn't scare me. Other people's love scares me.
Britney Spears
#24. Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
Ben Lerner
#25. Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?
Oren Peli
#26. When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.
Martha Beck
#27. My style is definitely not ladylike - frills and bows kinda scare me - but I like the military look because I love that olive green khaki color.
Cameron Russell
#28. That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It re-creates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we've grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you'd hoped was healed.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.
Nick Shamhart
#30. My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.
Steven Wright
#31. If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.
Barack Obama
#33. Nudity doesn't scare me at all; the only thing about it is the perception by the audience.
Amanda Seyfried
#35. There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.
Matt Drudge
#36. I didn't have to wear a mask on Halloween to scare people, so I didn't need one to cover my face on the field!
Tommy McDonald
#37. When will we get done with the fool idea that the way to make a party grow is to scare away everybody who has an extra dollar in his pocket? God forbid that the Democratic Party should become a mere gathering of the unsuccessful!
John W. Davis
#38. Take a look at my face. Do you see my expression? Does it scare you? It should, because this is the expression of a woman who's fallen off a horse too many times to put up with more shenanigans of the verbal variety.
Katie MacAlister
#39. Bones," I sighed. "Know something? I'm not afraid of you, but you scare
me ... ." His outline blurred again.
"You scare me, too, Kitten," he might have replied, but I couldn't be sure.
Jeaniene Frost
#40. Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Mark Gatiss
#41. My best life lessons and education didn't come from a classroom - they've come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
Bear Grylls
#42. The white supremacists are really pretty smart. If they can't scare us with the essential inferiority line, they'll wrap it in a miasma of sex, because that's the only thing they know is feared in our fundamentalist hearts down here.
Harper Lee
#43. A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.
Jay Leno
#44. She edged closer. "If this is your attempt to scare me away because you think I should be with a mortal man, it's not going to work." She rolled her eyes. "Been there, done that, have the divorce papers to prove it.
Kristen Painter
#45. Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.
Louise Nurding
#46. Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas.
Gib Lewis
#47. To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.
Taylor Swift
#48. I slid over to the edge of the bed and leaned back, letting my hair fall onto him.
"Ack!" he cried. "Don't scare me like that!
Catherine Clark
#49. When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.
Gary Zukav
#50. Who says I'm insane?"
"Oh you're sane alright.
You're so sane, you scare me.
You're so sane, it's insane.
Neal Shusterman
#51. And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#52. You don't scare me, Cadence Jones. I've lived with crazy, I've ridden with crazy, I've vacationed with crazy, I've visited crazy in various hospitals, I've sat in on therapy sessions with crazy. Frankly, I think women who don't have major emotional disorders are really very dull.
MaryJanice Davidson
#53. Is that how you're going to take me? Scare me into voluntarily coming aboard, then steal my Ice Cube?"
"It's always cubes with you," noted Foaly, somewhat randomly. "What's wrong with a nice sphere?
Eoin Colfer
#54. He gave them descriptive names that wouldn't scare people. It wouldn't do to call them Nemesis or Thor or Grond. So instead it was Potatohead, Mr. Spinny, Acorn, Peach Pit, Scoop, Big Boy, and Kidney Bean.
Neal Stephenson
#55. Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.
Lance Armstrong
#56. You whiny little piece of shit," Rogan growled. Another punch. "We don't kill civilians. We don't show off in public and scare people." Another punch. "We don't abuse our power, you fucking moron. You're a disgrace.
Ilona Andrews
#57. Set goals that are BOLD enough to scare you, but inspiring and exciting enough for you to commit 100% to!
Hal Elrod
#58. Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise.
Edmund White
#59. I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
Valerie Bertinelli
#60. I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.
Craig Kilborn
#61. Night clubs scare me. They're dark and they stink and they're dangerous and everybody's drunk.
David Letterman
#62. If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.
Andrew Van Der Bijl
#63. Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals.
H.L. Mencken
#64. Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.
Ben Carson
#65. The future is called "perhaps", which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow that to scare you.
Tennessee Williams
#66. I think sometimes I might scare the editors, because they might feel they're getting old and they're not understanding it. The problem lies on their side of the fence, not mine. I come from a different era and I design clothes for our era.
Alexander McQueen
#67. Write. Write every day. Write honestly. Write something that doesn't exist, and you wish did. Read. Learn. Study. Watch people. Listen to what they say, listen to how they say it and listen to what they do not say. Surprise yourself. Scare yourself.
Brian Michael Bendis
#68. Seriously,let me talk to her when she wakes up. Girl-to-girl."
"No offense, Chas, but you'd scare the crap out of her."
"Want to say that to my face, Coalhouse?"
"What's left of it.
Lia Habel
#69. 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
#70. Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.
Teresa Mummert
#71. Ssh," he almost whisperes. "I heard you Serena." He snakes his arm around my back and rougly pulls me into him. "I get that I scare you and that you don't really like me. I understand that's how you feel, but it doesn't mean that I'm going to accept it.
Beckie Stevenson
#72. If it doesn't scare you, you're probably not dreaming big enough.
Tory Burch
#73. There are some things that as an actor scare you, and if you can capture that fear on screen, it will be interesting.
Alice Lowe
#74. If I were directing a movie, it would scare me.
Seth Rogen
#75. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of.
Angelina Jolie
#76. 'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
Damien Chazelle
#77. For long I could not close my ears that night: I lay listening, I knew not what for. A scare was on me that made me dislike the dark,
J.M. Barrie
#79. I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.
Colin Powell
#80. I shouted the perfect words to scare him off. It was just the delivery (and only the delivery) that made me sound like a twelve-year-old girl with pee running down her leg.
I felt dirty and stupid.
Graham Parke
#81. I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
Wyclef Jean
#82. Girls scare me more than boys. Boys are cruel. Girls are mean.
Julie Anne Peters
#83. As long as you keep the audience on the edge of their seats, either scare them or keep them guessing, you can put anything in there that you want.
Wes Craven
#85. Horror stories in many ways touch us even more deeply. Because they remind us, that despite all our veneers of civilization and all our scientific progress, there are still things out there that defy the rational, and can scare the living daylights out of us.
Peter James
#86. I love Saturday nights with my best friend and a big bowl of pasta, wanting a good scare, something that will say, 'Listen, your life is not as bad as this. Your life can be so much worse.'
Vera Farmiga
#87. Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five feet of water, going to surf, and there was this big ol' freakin' leopard shark ... I'm looking at him and I'm thinking, 'OK, he won't hurt me.'
Timothy Olyphant
#88. Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.
Kristen Stewart
#89. You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.
Jamie Dornan
#90. But I love being scared. I think you're brave only when you do things that scare you. I've always used fear as a motivator. I'm not sure why.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#91. Transformations don't scare me: it thrills me to become the polar opposite.
Alexandra Roach
#92. You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright.
Charlie Higson
#93. We don't scare easy. We're Mycologists."
"Yes, Fungi makes you brave.
Girl Vs Monster
#94. Colton cleared his throat. "I'm no expert on spirits and the occult, but this is Keelan we're talking about. If by some miracle his soul did find it's way back to the Alpha Estate, Voodoo Meryn with a Ouija board doing incantations would scare him back the way he came.
Alanea Alder
#95. My research for 'Adam' affected me profoundly, particularly the research into evil's underbelly. We tend not to think about evil until it pokes its head out of the air about us and then it tends to scare us silly. As well it should.
Ted Dekker
#96. You don't scare me," he added.
"Oh, but I should."
"I'll never be scared by a girl."
"Oh so now you're not only a complete jerk, but your sexist too. Real nice, Radder."
"Thank you," he said, "your offenses mean nothing.
Ellie A. Gray
#97. I scare the neighbors, the kids ... They don't come to my house for trick-or-treating, trust me. I had to buy exactly zero amount of dollars worth of candy for the past couple of years.
Al Jourgensen
#98. I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.
Joan Severance
#100. A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.
Novalis
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