#terrify

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

— Jimmy Carr

#down #i #i think #older #partly

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#century #made #need #reason #terrifying

Sending your child off to school for the first time in their life is terrifying. ↗

— Arabella Weir

#first #first time #life #off #school

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#her #inflict #jests #most #nature

To terrify children with the image of hell... to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world? ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#consider #creation #good #hell #image

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

That war has brought with it a truly incredible development of means of destruction and a terrifying prospect of rapid and almost limitless development in that direction. ↗

— Cordell Hull

#brought #destruction #development #direction #incredible

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. ↗

— Salvador Dali

#architecture #beauty #edible #nouveau #terrifying

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

My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#brought #drink #had #horrible #i