Top 1200 Scary Books Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The best investment opportunities are often scary.

Change isn't a scary thing. It's constant and inevitable.

It felt scary because there was no auditioning, no rehearsing.

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

It's scary and uncomfortable releasing music that is close to you.

The acting life can be quite scary, really.

Putting your work out there is scary!

I love being in anything that's scary to people.

Never buy hardcover books. They are designed to sell to those who don't actually read. Along with books, many other things can be read: natural scenery, love, officialdom, business¡­

We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different languages. The child knows that someone must have written those books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the the languages in which they are written. The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend but only dimly suspects.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

I must say Action is not at all easy. It is scary.

We're humans and we can't control life and that's very scary.

My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

Life is so beautiful, but there are all these scary things you can't deny.

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an environment; atoms, not bits. My books are not dead weight, they are live weight — matter infused by spirit, every one of them, even the silliest. They do not block the horizon; they draw it. They free me from the prison of contemporaneity: one should not live only in one’s own time. A wall of books is a wall of windows.

What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

I watch too many scary movies.

Music and books were my inspiration too. I read avidly as a kid. And that's the beautiful thing about books and music and even movies, is that you can actually escape. You can go into other worlds.

I loved scary movies growing up.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

I don't really look at things in a scary way.

No one is talking. No one is emailing. No one is texting. It's spooky and scary.

I loved 'The Conjuring' so much. It's really scary.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

It's the Night of the Living Dead. It's scary out here.

We glorify those who left their names in history books at the expense of those contributors about whom our books are silent. We humans are not just a superficial race - we are a very unfair one.

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

The future is only scary if we try to avoid it.

Excuse me, scary people. (Alix)

As a director, if you know what you want, then it's not scary.

The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not the purely modern thing it seems. We can trace it, if we try, back to the first printing-presses.

Decision-making is very scary for me.

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

Shops are not a growing business, so it's a scary place to be.

Reality is the scary thing. Not my work, not comedy.

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

Demian Maia, he's a tough, scary guy.

Motherhood is this sort of "curtain lifting" of tremendous power that we have individually as women. It's tremendously freaky to have a human being grow inside your body and eventually turn into a human being, and then birth that human being, and then have them be separate from you. Those things are scary. It's also really, really scary to face the idea of losing a child and losing someone you love more than you've loved anything before. All of those things are innately really terrifying, and what it does to me is bring me to a direct kind of confrontation with my human vulnerability.

I read the 'Harry Potter' books as I was writing my own books, and I love them, but I don't think Harry was very much like I was as a kid. He's always brave, and he's perfect in a lot of ways.

I can't speak to what makes people think that I'm scary.

I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

Learning how to drive was a scary thing.

I use myself as the barometer to gauge what is scary.

She's not called Scary Spice for nothing.

I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

I'm really scary in reality. Most of the time.

Cancer is a scary thing and you have to deal with it seriously.

I'm going to introduce BookShots, which are these under-150-page books that I'm launching, and they're under $5. They just launched in Australia. I already had a ton of content, but now add 50 books a year of content.

Radio's a scary thing for me. It's dope to be on there.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.