Terrifies Quotes

Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce

Beauty, Power, Husband

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
Moliere

Soul, Solitude, Twenty

It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity.
Dennis Miller

Time, Nothing, Thought

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.
Mindy Kaling

Live, Career, Done

Being responsible for another human life terrifies me, because I kill plants.
Lauren Conrad

Life, Human, Another

I think humans have always wrestled with the Divine Idea - an idea that unites and separates, creates and destroys, consoles and terrifies. Throughout human history, it is an idea that seems sometimes to have caused whole populations to rise up and slaughter one another.
Robert Winston

History, Human, Sometimes

I can't see America any other way than with a European's eyes. It fascinates me and terrifies me at the same time.
Sergio Leone

Time, Eyes, America

I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me.
Stephen Rea

Death, Afraid, Dying

It's not so much that I want to direct but that I have to. When I write something it terrifies me that if I give it to someone else and it doesn't turn out as it could have done, I'd feel as if I'd orphaned my baby.
Peter Mullan

Someone, Done, Give

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.
Sara Paxton

Looking, Accomplish

I've struggled so hard to reign in my temper because it actually terrifies me.
Susannah York

Hard, Actually, Temper

'Poltergeist' terrifies me! When the little girl Carol Anne is talking to the TV, I get shivers every time.
Willow Shields

Time, Girl, Talking

I don't like improv at all. It terrifies me. I like to know exactly what I'm going to say. Being surprised does make me a better actor. Anytime I'm afraid of something that makes me rise to the occasion, it scares me, but it's what makes great actors - being in the moment.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Great, Moment, Afraid

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.
Nicholas Brendon

Few, Admit, Okay

Insects are my secret fear. That's what terrifies me more than anything - insects.
Michael O'Donoghue

Fear, Secret, Insects

I'd like to go back to standup. I don't like to think I've done my last gig. At the moment it terrifies me, I get really nervous. It's a great buzz when it goes well.
Mackenzie Crook

Great, Done, Moment

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