The most terrifying moment in my life was October 1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I did not know all the facts - we have learned only recently how close we were to war - but I knew enough to make me tremble.
Joseph Rotblat

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.
Paul Kane

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
Ronald Reagan

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador Dali

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu Reeves

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.
Jessica Hagedorn

There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.
Thomas A. Edison

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.
P. J. O'Rourke

This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile.
Wislawa Szymborska

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
Jim Morrison

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, and I would hope that I could participate in some way in stopping the horror and the brutality.
Wallace Shawn

What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying.
Nikita Khrushchev

When the facilities of the government of the United States are drawn on an individual, it can be terrifying.
Lee J. Cobb

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them.
Michael Hutchence

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down.
Truman Capote

You have to find a balance with food in your life - you can't take out food. It can be absolutely terrifying.
Carre Otis