#ominous

When 1:45 came, half the class left, and Danny Hupfer whispered, "If she gives you a cream puff after we leave, I'm going to kill you" - which was not something that someone headed off to prepare for his bar mitzvah should be thinking. When 1:55 came and the other half of the class left, Meryl Lee whispered, "If she gives you one after we leave, I'm going to do Number 408 to you." I didn't remember what Number 408 was, but it was probably pretty close to what Danny Hupfer had promised. Even Mai Thi looked at me with narrowed eyes and said, "I know your home." Which sounded pretty ominous. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#humor #ominous #threat #worry #humor

Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#been #management #materialism #never #north

Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as essential to civilized existence as the air we breathe is to life itself. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#attendant #become #breathe #cast #circumstances

The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess. ↗

— James Thurber

#armchair #attic #future #guess #old

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#discovered #either #experienced #experiencing #fragility

It was dark now, and broodingly sluggish. Like something supine waiting to spring, with just the tip of its tail twitching. Leaves stood still on the trees. An evil green star glinted in the black sky like a hostile eye, like an evil spying eye. ("For The Rest Of Her Life") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#evil #night #omen #ominous #star

Ren watched us as he leaned casually against the table, holding a pair of scissors. I'd never seen a classroom tool look so dangerous. ↗

— Andrea Cremer

#danger

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#ease #expect #forbid #freedom #go

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#draft #felt #going #i #me

I like to think that I'm not as ominous in real life. ↗

— Daniel Dae Kim

#life #like #ominous #real #real life