#terrify

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us. ↗

— David Mamet

#ratify #terrifying #threaten #us #which

We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#else #fear #feelings #inflict #less

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#had #haunted #i #me #midnight

Eight shows a week is daunting, and it can be terrifying. But it just instills such a sense of confidence and growth. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#daunting #eight #growth #just #sense

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#clock #come #creepy #death #effects

Women are incredible in groups together. Terrifying. Men have nothing on them. ↗

— Michael Hutchence

#groups #incredible #men #nothing #terrifying

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

It's the time of year when the literati give advice on what we should be reading on our summer holidays. These terrifying lists often leave me appalled at my own ignorance, but also suspicious about the pretension of their advocates. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#advice #also #appalled #give #holidays

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept. ↗

— James M. Cain

#concept #i #i write #reason #some

Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. ↗

— Truman Capote

#art #bad #being #between #came