Scare Quotes - Page 24

• 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

  Beautiful, Hurt, Couple

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• We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fear, Blessing, Men

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• I love Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist. The Shining is a great one too, but theres not a lot that scares me. Maybe its because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.

  Lucy Hale

  Shining, Sides, Exorcist

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• I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.

  Wyclef Jean

  Way, Trunks

  Song: Anything Can Happen, Album: The Carnival, 1997

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• I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

  Joan Severance

  Hurt, People, Costumes

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

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• Listen, I don't know anything about polygraphs and I don't know how accurate they are, but I know they'll scare the hell out of people.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Science, People, Hell

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• Well, you know, they use those words so that they can scare people "terror" and "cell."

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Cells, People, Use

  "Rosie Makes up Facts and Smears Volunteer Soldiers". "The View" with Roseann O'Donnell, newsbusters.org. May 1, 2007.

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• So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me... besides Republicans.

  Joe Dante

  Kids, Done, Kind

  "Interview: Joe Dante on the horrors of 'The Hole'". www.mtv.com. September 27, 2012.

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• I'm not into western medicine. That to me is a complete scare tactic.

  Bill Maher

  Scare Tactics, Medicine, Western

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. December 15, 2005.

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• And if you want to know why great editors scare the pants off of writers everywhere, read 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' by Lynne Truss. The punctuation police are everywhere!

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Editors, Police, Want

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• Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.

  Charles Frazier

  Real, Writing, Years

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• 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

  Silly, Thinking, Air

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• Crosses only scare vampires away because they're allergic to bullshit.

  Richard Pryor

  Bullshit, Vampire, Crosses

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• If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

  Etgar Keret

  Enough, Rational, Ifs

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reflection, Glasses, Heaven

  Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage

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• Jeez, Claire. If I didn't love you, you'd scare me.

  Rachel Caine

  Love You, Claire, Ifs

  Rachel Caine (2010). “Kiss of Death: The Morganville Vampires”, p.166, Penguin

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• We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I said 'irrational' fears. Because that's not gonna happen"-Adam "It still scares me"- Mia

  Gayle Forman

  Dark, Secret, Mia

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• No one can predict whether the earth will be cooler or hotter next year, let alone do anything to change it. If you're afraid of global warming, turn off the lights when you leave the room - but don't participate in the corruption of science, don't scare our kids with unproven cataclysmic theories, and don't try to ban economic energy sources that people living on this planet depend upon today. And don't try to stop progress; it's the only hope the earth has of seeing clean industry, short of exterminating mankind.

  Doug Casey

  Kids, Light, Years

  "Doug Casey on Global Warming". Interview with Louis James, www.caseyresearch.com. October 7, 2009.

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• Witch' is just a religion, okay? No baby-sacrificing, no Black Masses, no sending imps out to scare the dog-snot out of kids, trying to make them think they're crazy. We don't do things like that. Our number-one law is 'Have fun in this lifetime, but don't hurt anybody.' Nice little paraphrase of "An it harm none, do as ye will" if I do say so myself.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Dog, Baby, Hurt

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• God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement.

  John Ortberg

  Children, Pain, Train Of Thought

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.201, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.

  Maya Banks

  Violent, Form, Impression

  Maya Banks (2011). “Hidden Away”, p.51, Penguin

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• See, you have to marry me. I seem to scare off all the help.

  Lynsay Sands

  Helping, Marry Me, Seems

  Lynsay Sands (2011). “The Vampire eBook Collection”, p.409, Hachette UK

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• It scares me how fast I go from disliking to loving him, and I wonder if it’s this way for everyone.

  Melissa Bank

  Way, Wonder, Loving Him

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.51, Penguin

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• Nakata's empty inside... Do you know what it means to be completely empty? Being empty is like a vacant house. An unlocked, vacant house. Anybody can come in, anytime they want. That's what scares me the most

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, House, Want

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• I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

  David Levithan

  Kissing, Scare Tactics, Flesh

  David Levithan (2012). “Every Day”, p.223, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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