Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

When you do the thing you fear, the thing loses its power to scare.

Jussie Smollett

There really is no weight to telling the truth. It's a little scary sometimes, but if you tell the truth, you don't have to be looking over your shoulder.

Kevin Eubanks

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

Kevin Costner

Conventional wisdom is so scary because what if everybody's wrong?

Moliere

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Jerry Garcia

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

Frances McDormand

It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.

Francesca Lia Block

It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages.

Jensen Ackles

I used to be scared of uncertainty; now I get a high out of it.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Scars crossed her welded wrists.

Jennifer Lawrence

Once I’m obsessed with somebody, I’m terrified of them instantly. I’m not scared of them—I’m scared of me and how I will react,

Jean Houston

I find that all over the world, not only is there an acceleration of just about everything, but that many of the old patterns are deconstructing. New ones are arising. It's tremendously exciting, challenging, and also sometimes, well, scary.

Jada Pinkett Smith

I'm scared of clowns.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I was spooked when I first got the role, as I was afraid I wouldn't have the companionship I need on a shoot, because I'm so into the process itself, not so much the end product.

Gary Ross

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

Christopher Bailey

It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

George Orwell

It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another.

Isaac Marion

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

Edgerrin James

I am not scared to take a chance.

Jolene Purdy

I am not a scary movie/book kind of gal.

Howard Gordon

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

Frank Zappa

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

Jeanette Winterson

In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives.

Jeaniene Frost

Don't fret, Grannie. We're going to a Bible retreat to scare the devil out of her

Jeaniene Frost

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.

Jeff Bridges

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

Gary Zukav

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

Neal Shusterman

There are mysteries in Everlost. Some of them are wonderful, and others scary. They should all be explored, though- perhaps that's why we're here: to experience the good and the bad that Everlost has to offer.

Neal Shusterman

Who says I'm insane?" "Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.

Mara Wilson

I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and I was losing who I was. And that really scared me.

Robert Herjavec

The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.

Emily Browning

I love horror films, but it's more than an adrenaline rush for me. I love them because I know they scare me. It's kind of like I go on roller coasters, but I'm terrified of roller coasters, sort of thing.

Emily Dickinson

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.