#terrify

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#atrocious #bad #case #chance #completely

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#architecture #beauty #edible #nouveau #terrifying

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

#abandon #absolutely #appalled #brain #dare

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there. ↗

— David Friedman

#heart #laying #me #most #out

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#get #i #national #place #terrifying

All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying. ↗

— Kate Moss

#away #cried #friends #get #hard

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#christian #churches #enslave #human #human inventions

I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#being #choose #did #especially #fact

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

#crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #did #during