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“I'd rather stay asleep than have to learn all those frightening secrets.”

Source: Casa Rossa

“Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.”

“You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.”

Thinking Looks Persons Song Fun Can Do New York Frightening Depressing Fun Things Really Depressing

Author:Elliott Smith

“Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!”

Men Universe Practice Theory Independent Atheist Frightening Chaotic

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”

Dangerous Frightening

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.”

Looks Kind Scary Drag Frightening

Author:Carrot Top

“'Captain Fantastic' was the first album in history to enter the (American) album chart at number one. We did it for a second time after that. Now that's not a boast, that's frightening.”

Firsts Stories Song Order Process Numbers Written Unique Albums Fantastic Frightening Captains Boast

Author:Bernie Taupin

“Wives are good on paper, at least. until they turn into harpies with sharp claws and open check books. Then they're kind of frightening. And they put on all kinds of makeup and parade around the street with their shopping cart yelling "Sale on aisle seven!" at anyone who will listen. Their wooden clog sandals make a helluva racket on linoleum tile. Their plastic jewelry clatters like the bones of little children.”

“I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.”

Thinking World Reality Television Frightening Immune Reality Television

Author:Tony Todd

“In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.”

Firsts Roles Audience Terror Frightening

Author:Ian McLeod

“Without my mother's ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.”

World Mother My Own Doubt Ambition Rome Frightening

Author:Sophia Loren

“I came to the realization that a strong female is frightening to everybody, because all societies are male-dominated, black societies, poor people, rich people, any racial group, they're all dominated by men. A strong female is going to threaten everybody across the board...”

People Men Strong Black Poor Rich Groups Female Males Realization Boards Frightening Poor People Rich People Strong Female

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.”

Ifs Knows Want Mind Feelings Certain Frightening

Book:David Lynch: Interviews

Source: David Lynch: Interviews

“You invest a lot in your kids, from the sleepless nights early on and the frightening trips to the emergency room, to homework assignments and a million miles of taxi driving. The great thing is that everything you put in counts, and with a bit of luck, one day they will realize it. Love adds up to something. It's indestructible and immortal and carries long on after your own life is over. Who could ask for more?”

“I understand that change is frightening for people, especially if there's nothing to go to. It's best to stay where you are. I understand that.”

People Ifs Where You Are Frightening

Author:Princess Diana

“Income and wealth inequality have reached obscene levels, the threat of climate change is more frightening than ever, and the billionaire class is now allowed to spend unlimited amounts of money to buy the candidate they want. And it is up to us to stand up and fight back. If we stand together, there is no limit to what we can accomplish.”

“No less characteristic in a democracy is social justice. This demands a solution to the frightening indexes of infant mortality, of malnutrition, lack of education illiteracy, wages not sufficient to sustain life”

Social Justice Democracy Demand Solutions Social Justice Sufficient Characteristics Mortality Frightening Wages Infant Malnutrition Illiteracy Lack Of Education Infant Mortality

Author:Rigoberta Menchu

“I know that the human condition will be radically changed through technical means. Much of this change will be painful, monstrous and horrible. Most mutations are disgusting failures, most experiments are failures. I accept this and I don't find it frightening.”

Knows Humans Mean Accepting Conditions Changed Painful Experiments Horrible Human Condition Disgusting Frightening Monstrous Mutation

Author:Bruce Sterling

“Nothing is more frightening than a monster that cares about his health, cause you know he'll be around for a while.”

Knows Care Causes Monsters Frightening

Author:Geoff Ramsey

“Sarah Palin is an empty vessel ready to be filled by ideology that she doesn't even understand, and that is really scary. Nothing is more frightening than an empty vessel in power.”

Ready Empty Filled Scary Ideology Frightening Vessel Palin Really Scary Empty Vessels

Author:Chris Matthews

“Call me an alarmist, but we are witnessing the beginning of the most frightening period of government tyranny in our nation's history.”

Government Nations Periods Tyranny Call Me Frightening Alarmists Government Tyranny

Author:David Limbaugh

“More frightening to me than any policy or politician is the ease with which the public is played for fools with words. The latest example is the 'Employee Freedom of Choice Act,' a bill that will do away with secret ballot elections among workers voting on whether to be represented by a union. It is an open invitation to intimidation - which is to say, loss of freedom of choice.”

Choices Loss Secret Policy Example Fool Politician Election Bills Unions Workers Ease Employee Voting Frightening Invitations Ballots Freedom Of Choice Intimidation

Author:Thomas Sowell

“All my life I've worked and I was so lucky to go from a radio station in Washington to the Dodgers and of course, it never stopped. For me to suddenly put the key in the ignition and turn the engine off, it's kind of a frightening thought. I put the key in and left it there, God willing, for another year.”

Years Kind Turns Courses Left Willing Keys Lucky Radio Gods Will Stations Engines Frightening So Lucky Radio Stations Dodgers Another Year

Author:Vin Scully

“It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.”

People Matter Fall Influence Frightening Conditioning Psychedelic

Author:Terence McKenna

“I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.”

Years Boys Frightening Terrified Patches Exaggerating

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“We don't need to invest all of our faith in every concept, in every symbol, in every opinion that forms the totality of our knowledge. Faith means to believe in something 100% without a doubt, and to doubt our own knowledge can seem like the most frightening thing that can happen to us.”

Needs Believe Mean Seems Happens Form Opinion Doubt Concepts Symbols Frightening Totality

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Living in New York, I get excited by the idea of working in a different medium. And it's pretty frightening because whatever skills it takes to make a good piece of theater seem mysterious to me right now.”

Ideas Different Seems Pieces New York Skills Theater Excited Mediums Mysterious Frightening

Author:Cary Fukunaga

“I like the Polanski stuff more than anything else. Rosemary's Baby is still one of my favorite movies of all time. The idea of her being impregnated with the devil is just so frightening.”

Stills Ideas Stuff Baby Devil My Favorite All Time Paranormal Frightening Rosemary

Author:Dylan McDermott

“For me, the thing that I love about the show is the psychological thriller aspect of it. It's frightening and it's scary, and there are all these things that happen. You have these really dramatic scenes, and then you get in a scene with him and I can't tell you how many times I would start cracking up.”

I Can Shows Happens Scene Aspect Scary Psychological Dramatic Frightening Thrillers Psychological Thrillers Cracking Up

Author:Kyra Zagorsky

“But in the beginning, when you're looking at this and you're thinking about it, the CDC gets brought up to this place to deal with this virus and it's something that they've never seen. That, in itself, is quite frightening in a story because real-life epidemics are something that happen, all the time. I think there were just a couple of reported cases this last week in Vancouver of some people passing away with H1N1.”

People Thinking Real Stories Happens Lasts Deals Cases Week Couple Real Life Passing Passings Frightening Viruses Passing Away Epidemics Vancouver

Author:Kyra Zagorsky

“Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.”

Grows Seven Frightening Seven Days

Author:Robin Sharma

“One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born and bred in captivity, then released into the wild-into its ancestral sea-its limited world instantly blowing up when cast into the unknowable depths, seeing strange fish and tasting new waters, not even having a concept of depth, not knowing the language of any whale pods it might meet. It was my fear of a world that would expand suddenly, violently, and without rules or laws: bubbles and seaweed and storms and frightening volumes of dark blue that never end.”

“Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.”

Thinking Believe Important I Believe Realizing Outcomes Frightening

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Sometimes those demons are frightening and sometimes they're beautiful.”

Sometimes Beautiful Demon Frightening

Author:Tori Amos

“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.”

People Men Mind Has Beens Running Today Cities Modern Weapons Destruction Towns Cameras Instruments Photograph Factories Frightening Warfare Ruined Spy Bombing Mapping Forerunners

Author:John Steinbeck

“At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.”

Knows Want Faces Black Half Know How Doors Century Clothes Frightening Hung Wigs Fuzzy Afros Wreaths Black Face Black Clothes

Author:Bette Davis

“Honest to god, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say. (on playing for Liverpool again)”

I Can Honest England Frightening Liverpool

Author:Robbie Fowler

“The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.”

Dream Hell Baby Creatures Scared Versions Aliens Frightening Tics

Author:Lance Henriksen

“Waiting for the horror is almost more frightening than actually seeing it. Just the pending dread.”

Waiting Seeing Horror Dread Frightening Pending

Author:Matthijs van Heijningen, Jr.

“Eventually, if your career goes higher and higher, that's just how it is, but it's a little frightening. When I was younger and I thought about being an actor, I thought of the old Hollywood style of glamour, and that was so beautiful and appealing to me. Now, if you want to be an actor, it's not the same.”

Ifs Want Littles Beautiful Actors Careers Style Higher Hollywood Frightening Glamour Old Hollywood

Author:Tinsel Korey

“Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely left out. With either extreme, photographing makes me have to deal with it.”

Feels Looks Sometimes Beautiful Left Deals Extremes Frightening Left Out

Author:Andrea Modica

“... all of my life I've made things that are like fragmented mirrors of what I perceive to be the world. As far as I'm concerned the fact that in 1990 the human body is still a taboo subject is unbelievably ridiculous. What exactly is frightening about the human body?”

World Humans Made Stills Facts Body Subjects Concerned Mirrors Ridiculous Perceive Frightening Human Body Taboo Fragmented Exactly Is

Book:Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

Source: Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration

“Democrats should run Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for president. He's more coherent than Dennis Kucinich, he dresses like their base, he's more macho than John Edwards, and he's willing to show up at a forum where he might get one hostile question - unlike the current Democratic candidates for president who won't debate on Fox News Channel. He's not married to an impeached president, and the name Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is surely no more frightening than B. Hussein Obama.”

Should Shows Might Running Names President Willing Married News Dresses Democratic Democrat Currents Debate Candidates Frightening Foxes Hostile Hussein Fox News Forums Macho News Channels

Author:Ann Coulter

“When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless.”

Writing Looks Tree Paper Endless Frightening Consumption Volume Sheer Toilets Usage Towels Toilet Paper Napkins Paper Towels

Author:Ian Somerhalder

“You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.”

Way Stills Left Religious Views Crazy Intense Liberalism Frightening Fundamentalism Moderates Extremism Religious Fundamentalism

Author:Sydney Pollack

“The justification - the idea that we have a right to invade another country and determine another people's destiny - is frightening. And I fear really for the future of that occupation. What happens now, and twenty years from now, and forty years from now, given our case? People in the United States may feel like when we don't see it on CNN twenty-four hours a day, it sort of disappears. But it doesn't disappear for the people who have to live under occupation - and their children and their children's children.”

People Feels Years May Children Ideas Country States Happens Given Hours United Destiny Cases United States Four Twenties Determine Disappear Forty Occupation Frightening Justification Cnn

Author:Edwidge Danticat

“If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.”

Ifs Political Mother Artist Levels Tvs Happenings Program Wings Debate Mainstream Frightening Right Wing Biased Political Debates

Author:Thom Yorke

“When I go to photograph somebody, they say, "What do you want me to do?" Those are the most frightening words in the English language. I want to say, "Please, go over into good light and do something unusual.”

Want Light Language Please Photograph Unusual Want Me Frightening English Language You Want Me Do You Want Me

Author:John Loengard

“When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.”

Culture Planets Affair Contact Aliens Shock Frightening Intervention Ongoing Our Planet Ufo

Author:Philip J. Corso

“So many people took my opinion and some will give it more serious consideration because of who I am. Not because I have a specility in this field that I gave my opinion on, but simply because I am a little bit famous. I find that kind of power to presaude both frightening and exciting. My hope, my most frevent hope, is that I use this louder voice that success has given me, wisely. That I always remember that fame is the by product, not the substance of what I do.”

People Giving Kind Littles Use Remember Given Bits Voice Opinion Fields Serious Products Fame Little Bit Exciting Who I Am Substance Consideration Frightening

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

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