Scare Quotes - Page 22

• Any time you can get up there and scare a few people, throw up some decent times, it builds up your confidence and also sends a message to other people.

  Marianne Limpert

  Motivational, Athlete, Swimming

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• If you're going to do good work, the work has to scare you.

  Andre Previn

  Educational, Good Work, Ifs

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• Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such a phase both warier and chastened. When-ten years ago-I emerged from a bad dip into suicidal speculation, I felt utterly exhausted and yet quite fearless of ordinary dangers, vastly afraid of myself but much less scared of extraneous eventualities.

  Edward Hoagland

  Cancer, Heart, Suicidal

  Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.29, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It scares the living crap out of me how good wine is at ten dollars.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Dollars, Crap

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• Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Atheist, People, Religion

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• If your vision doesn't scare you, then both your vision and your God are too small.

  Andrew van der Bijl

  Vision, Awe, Seeing

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• The mind travels faster than the pen; consequently, writing becomes a question of learning to make occasional wing shots, bringing down the bird of thought as it flashes by. A writer is a gunner, sometimes waiting in the blind for something to come in, sometimes roaming the countryside hoping to scare something up.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Wings, Bird

  "The Elements of Style" by William Strunk, Jr., E. B. White, (Ch. V), 1972.

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• It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

  Wendell Berry

  Heart, Paper, Breakfast

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays”, p.28, Counterpoint

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• The thing is, horror is a big part of 'Sherlock Holmes.' Doyle also wrote a lot of great horror stories, so there's a lot more horror in 'Holmes' that people possibly think of. There's a lot of curses and mysticism and real scares.

  Mark Gatiss

  Real, Thinking, Horror Stories

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• 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

  Children, Reality, Thinking

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• Spelling bees? Spelling bees do not scare me. I competed in the National Spelling Bee twice, thank you very much. My dad competed in the National Spelling Bee. My aunt competed in the National Spelling Bee. My uncle WON the National Spelling Bee. If I can't spell it, I know someone who can. So just bring it on.

  Kristin Cashore

  Uncles, Dad, Fear

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• I prefer to scare myself in the ordinary ways, Daddy. Like letting my children cross the country for college. Why bungee jump when you can put a kindergartener on a school bus? Now, that's real terror.

  Kristin Hannah

  Country, Fear, Children

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• The two things that scare me most about wrestling fans is that they're allowed to vote and allowed to reproduce.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wrestling, Wwe, Two

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• We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams.

  James Wan

  Thinking, People, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

  Rick Riordan

  Accepting, Okay, Contingency

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• The scene that scares you the most, that you don't want to write because it's the most difficult to write-that's the one you have to write.  So I think when people have writer's block, it's because what they have to write scares them. And that's usually the heart of the book.

  Marcy Dermansky

  Block, Book, Writing

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• There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

  Matt Drudge

  Editors, Citizens, World

  Matt Drudge (2001). “Drudge Manifesto”, N A L Trade

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• It's important to do things that scare you to death!

  Reese Witherspoon

  Life, Important, Life Death

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• 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

  Liars, Years, Botox

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• When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

  Keegan Allen

  Country, Real, School

  "My favorite scary movie: Keegan Allen's head turns at 'exorcist'". www.mtv.com. October 28, 2011.

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• I don't watch horror movies because they scare me!

  Sarah Wayne Callies

  Watches, Horror

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• Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.

  Abdallah II

  Weapons, Chemicals, Chemical Weapons

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• It's not the end that I fear with each breath- It's life that scares me to death.

  Tim McIlrath

  Rise Against, Ends, Breaths

  "Song: "Rumors of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated" ("Siren Song of the Counter Culture")". August 10, 2004.

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• Look, this debate is basic: it's small government vs. big government. So how cowardly do folks like Blood and Frank Rich have to be that they can't man up and defend their love for collectivism? The only reason they scream race, is because that debate scares them. They know a racial accusation prevents dialogue, because such a harmful charge far outweighs any benefits of winning an argument.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Winning, Blood

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• The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

  Freeman Dyson

  Climate, Facts, Reason Why

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