Scare Quotes - page 2

In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dude you scare me sometimes! You're all vampire superwoman. View quote
Melissa de la Cruz
Who says I'm insane?"" ""Oh you're sane alright. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane. View quote
Neal Shusterman
Amos sipped his coffee. The faraway look on his face reminded me of my dad. "I don't want to scare you.” "Too late. View quote
Rick Riordan
Freak is easily spooked. Flesh-eating monsters tend to scare him away. So do fireworks, clowns, and the smell of Sadie's weird British Ribena drink. (Can't blame him on that last one. Sadie grew up in London and developed some pretty strange tastes. View quote
Rick Riordan
I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare. View quote
Simon Pegg
Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. View quote
Sam Shepard
Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I'm even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days. View quote
Vanessa Hudgens
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. (Ellen Johnson Sirleaf)
If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational. View quote
Etgar Keret
I like to scare myself and throw myself off the deep end. View quote
Samantha Barks
We think craft is important, and the irony has always been that horror may be disregarded by critics, but often they are the best-made movies you're going to find in terms of craft. You can't scare people if they see the seams. View quote
James Wan
It's as much fun to scare as to be scared. View quote
Vincent Price
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself. View quote
M. Night Shyamalan
I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. View quote
Anna Silk
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them. View quote
Christopher Darden
I'm a firm believer in doing things that scare you. View quote
Catherine Bell
I've have a number of violent tics. With Tourette syndrome, there's not just compulsive actions, but compulsive thoughts as well. That used to scare my mother a lot. View quote
Dash Mihok
A good horror movie - it doesn't matter how many comedy horror films there have been before. Doesn't matter how much you think it's going to be funny. A good horror movie will scare the hell out of you... the moment you sit down and you start being exposed to that story, it's going to freeze your blood. (Fede Alvarez)
Shoot, after you've been through freeway traffic in Houston or Dallas, there's no road in the world that can scare you. Besides, we're pretty much used to driving long distances in Texas. View quote
Gib Lewis
I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea. View quote
Holly Marie Combs
I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them. View quote
Joan Severance
I had a cancer scare in the early '90s, and for a few months, I wondered if I would make it. View quote
Kiki Dee
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