#terrify

Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

#arms #arms race #before #desire #get

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#believe #day #every #every day #four

I feel happy to terrify kids. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#happy #i #i feel #kids #terrify

Losing my anonymity in this world I think is something that I find terrifying. ↗

— Alex O'Loughlin

#find #i #i think #losing #something

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. ↗

— Stephen King

#emotion #find #finest #go #gross-out

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#being #called #came #cancer #catch

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#down #i #i think #older #partly

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#become #becomes #complex #heart #human

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#i #over #screen #terrifying

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

#beautiful #even #mood #nature #terrifying