Scare Quotes - page 9

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)
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. View quote
Maya Banks
You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. Then I think you have to develop a kind of resistance to rejection, and to the disappointments that are sure to come your way. View quote
Gregory Peck
You have to dream, you have to have a vision, and you have to set a goal for yourself that might even scare you a little because sometimes that seems far beyond your reach. View quote
Gregory Peck
Don't like motorbikes. Don't like them, I've been on a few, even in a few videos and they scare me. They scare the hell out of me and you know in videos, course I've got "the cool face on" and cool breezing it, tough, glasses, but underneath I'm screaming. View quote
Aaliyah
They torture and scare you for twenty odd years... then they expect you to pick a career. View quote
John Lennon
I care more about the country than what happens to me. But we can't allow the law to become a political weapon or agree to scare people away from standing up for their rights, no matter how good the deal. I'm not going to be part of that. View quote
Edward Snowden
I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world. View quote
Colin Powell
The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared. View quote
Freeman Dyson
The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment.. []. View quote
W. E. B. Du Bois
The days of ‘Let's haul this kid in front of the judge, scare him and send him home with a warning' are long since gone,” says attorney Jay Leiderman. " Prosecutorial discretion is a great thing if it's exercised, but it doesn't happen in any meaningful way these days, because prosecutions are so politicized. (Jay Leiderman)
White people scare the crap out of me. View quote
Michael Moore
AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child, Ay, screen it if you may,- Yet I misdoubt thy trembling hand Will scare the hawk away. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales. I therefore resolved not to have any equations at all. In the end, however, I did put in one equation, Einstein's famous equation, E = mc^2. I hope that this will not scare off half of my potential readers. View quote
Stephen Hawking
I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. View quote
Dolly Parton
I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him. View quote
Katherine Heigl
Doesn't it scare you, having your death close by all the time? View quote
Philip Pullman
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts. View quote
Zooey Deschanel
They can't scare me, if I scare them first. View quote
Lady Gaga
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. View quote
Lance Armstrong
Companies will often use the legal system to scare people away from attacking them. But we all should be free to make critical statements about anybody, unless those statements are malicious. (Lawrence Lessig)
Google is one of the most incredible breakthroughs that we have today. Yes, it can scare a lot of patients, thinking we're all dying because we look up something on Google. But there's also a lot of anecdotal information from parents, firsthand accounts of what they did for their own child. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
I didn't want to scare you. We don't want to scare anyone. View quote
Octavia Butler
My mother goes crazy over babies. Some people just do. They love 'em! I never have. Babies scare me more than anything. They're tiny and fragile and impressionable - and someone else's! As much as I hate borrowing stuff, that is how much I hate holding other people's babies. It's too much responsibility. View quote
Margaret Cho
You look dandy in the sky but you don't scare me Cause I got you here in my eye In this lifetime you got my human gets me blues. View quote
Captain Beefheart