Top 1200 Scary Stories Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

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

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.

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

Early success is really scary. Especially in acting.

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

I loved scary movies growing up.

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

The best investment opportunities are often scary.

I feel very privileged to hear how somebody used to run around stickin' people up and stealing cars, and now they're gettin' their life back together... I just love the stories. The stories of the fallen world, they excite us. That's the interesting stuff.

Here is something you have to understand about stories: They point you in the right direction but they can't take you all the way there. Stories are crescent moons; they glimmer in the night sky, but they are most exquisite in their incomplete state. Because people crave the beauty of not-knowing, the excitement of suggestion, and the sweet tragedy of mystery.

The acting life can be quite scary, really.

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

Learning how to drive was a scary thing.

Writing was my companion and stories were my companion when I was bedridden and didn't think I was going to walk again and all of that treacherous stuff. And stories are how you can comfort a child. It's certainly how I comforted my daughter, in good and bad times.

Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.

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

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

Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word.

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories.

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

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

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

Decision-making is very scary for me.

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

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

Putting your work out there is scary!

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

Nothin’s real scary except in books.

She's not called Scary Spice for nothing.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

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

I pretend something scary is in front of me.

What wonderful thing didn't start out scary?

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

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

Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.

People get obsessive and nuts. It's scary.

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

The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.

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

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

Good stories must travel through conflict. And in epic stories, the conflict must become unbearable.

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

I watch too many scary movies.

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

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

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

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

Sometimes people get fairly obscure just for the creative license of it, and that can backfire. Iconic stories are iconic for a reason, and there are so many incredible, iconic history stories that have not been told that we don't need to go too deep in the well yet.

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

My mother was a children's librarian. I remember when traditional stories were revised for modern audiences until they bore only a nodding acquaintance with the originals, but were released as 'authentic Indian stories' when they were, in fact, nothing of the kind.

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

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

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

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

Being alone at night is scary sometimes.

I love storytelling. I love stories, and I love the way in which we connect through stories.

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

When I decided to make my version of Poe's stories, I wanted to respect the original material or to at least get closer to what his stories are really about. Most other adaptations I've seen sort of follow the story but they never satisfy me as an audience member or as a reader.