#fright

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#concerts #entertainers #entertainment #funny #gifted-people

We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#enslavement #freedom #frighten #courage

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#fragile #frightened #hysteria #identification #reaching-out

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. ↗

— Garth Nix

#humor #mogget #time #humor

Now the thought of forever makes me tired. Frightened. Sad. What is forever worth? When love is so fragile and even one human life so long? ↗

— Stacey Jay

#fragile #frightened #life #love #life

I danced frightening things. They were frightened of me and therefore thought that I wanted to kill them. I did not want to kill anyone. I loved everyone, but no one loved me, and therefore I became nervous. ↗

— Vaslav Nijinsky

#frightening #kill #love #nervous #love

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#horror #movie #scream #movies

The unknown is always frightening. ↗

— Naveen Andrews

#frightening #unknown

It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#anything #back #commit #doing #drink

You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success. ↗

— Randy Bachman

#frighten #get #people #success #sudden