Irrational Fear Quotes - Page 2

• I've always had an irrational fear - it's really not an irrational fear, I think - whenever I've been standing at a urinal at a bar, or Giants Stadium or Yankee Stadium. You've got a bunch of drunks behind you, often in a hostile, adrenalized environment like a football game. What's to prevent the guy behind me from slamming my head into the porcelain wall in front of me?

  Steve Rushin

  Football, Wall, Thinking

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• You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of." "Well, that's the common term for an irrational fear of birds." "What do they call a rational fear of birds, then?

  Neil Gaiman

  Silly, Thinking, Bird

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• My parents had irrational fears of Mexico and assumed that once you crossed the border, drug runners made you swallow a heroin balloon and then within the hour you were in a bathtub full of ice and they were harvesting your kidneys.

  Justin Halpern

  Ice, Parent, Drug

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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