Books may well be the only true magic. — Alice Hoffman
Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book. — E. B. White
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen. — Joineriana
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. — Chuck Palahniuk
There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.
Scientific naturalism is a story that reduces reality to physical particles and impersonal laws, [and] portrays life as a meaningless competition among organisms that exist only to survive and reproduce. — Philip Johnson
Television has a real problem. They have no page two. Consequently every big story gets the same play and comes across to the viewer as a really big, scary one. — Art Buchwald
It's always scary making a film as I never set anything up or ask anyone to do anything, so I worry that we'll find a story. I have to trust that a film will come out of the journey we embark on. I have many, many sleepless nights. — Kim Longinotto
The scariest thing about distance is that you don't know whether they'll miss you or forget you.
The best scary movies have great humor in them and a great story. — Stephen Sommers
I love scary movies. I like American Horror Story. That is more of a series, but it is really good. — Daniel Jacobs
Do you like scary stories? he asked ominously. Jacob Black — Stephenie Meyer
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies) — Patrick Carman
Scary Quotes
beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living. — Bob Marley
Devout Christians are destined to be regarded as fools in modern society. We are fools for Christ's sake. We must pray for courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world. — Antonin Scalia
Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men. — Unknown Author
Each time you read a book, a tree smiles knowing there's life after death.
I am actually as good as everybody else pretends to be. It's scary. — Dean Ambrose
Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what's going to happen. It's one of the most beautiful things in life, but it's one of the most terrifying. It's worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories. — Ariana Grande
I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost America...I don't think we should suppress other races, but I think if we lose that White - what's the word for it - that White dominance in America, with it we lose America. — David Duke
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. — Mitch Hedberg
One can be sophisticated and believe in God. Reason and intellect are not to be laid aside where matters of religion are concerned. — Antonin Scalia
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome
The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. — David Ben-Gurion
Scary Things Quotes
The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed. — Mark Carwardine
The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle. — Stephen King
You dont have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
That there is a Devil is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influence of the Devil. For any to deny the being of a Devil must be from ignorance or profaneness worse than diabolical. — Cotton Mather
Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. — Fred Rogers
Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids - all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile. — Paul Tournier
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Pain is important, and changing who you are is difficult, painful, and scary. Most of the self-help industry sees change as this euphoric, liberating thing and tells you that you can be happy all the time. I think the opposite. — Mark Manson
The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell. — Girolamo Savonarola
Coming up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. — Rod Serling
Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it. — Russell T Davies
Scary Halloween Quotes
May Jack-o-lanterns burning bright, Of soft and golden hue, Pierce through the future's veil and show, What fate now holds for you? — Jerry Smith
When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth. — George A. Romero
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers. — Emily Luchetti
Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
There is something haunting in the light of the moon. — Joseph Conrad
In masks and gown we haunt the street
And knock on doors for trick or treat
Tonight we are the king and queen,
For oh tonight it's Halloween! — Jack Prelutsky
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make! — Bram Stoker
I went away in my head, into a book.
My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play. — Joel Benton
As spirits roam the neighborhoods at night, Let loose upon the Earth till it be light. — Nick Gordon
I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids. — Robert Breault
Scary Stuff Quotes
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff. — Dossie Easton
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. — Stephen Harper
All of the press and stuff - that's the scary stuff. The acting is what I got trained to do. — Emilia Clarke
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
Nuclear arms is pretty scary because that could end the world. I'm more interested in that stuff than I am Bill Clinton. I mean, I think Bill Clinton is a good president. — Stephen Dorff
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour. — Lance Henriksen
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff. — Neil LaBute
WIth freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy.
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down. — Max Brooks
This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it. — Robert Mapplethorpe
I lose tons of stuff on the cutting room floor. For Scary Movie 3, for example, we had a lot of Matrix spoofs, a Hulk scene, and some of that stuff just doesn't hold up - it's too much plot, audiences just didn't want to hear about it. — David Zucker
I might get scared of a really big dog, but I don't scare easy. As a youngster I used to watch all the scary stuff by myself, so nothing really gets to me now. There's actually a new series on TV called Hellevator and I filled out an application to be on the show because I love that type of stuff. — Andre Dirrell
Scary People Quotes
I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home. — Zak Bagans
There is nothing scary about naturally talented people, hardworking people are the ones to be afraid of. — Lisa Manoban
People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view. — Charlie Sheen
When you can turn people on their head and shake them and no money falls out, then you know God's saying, "Move on, son." — A. A. Allen
Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw? — Jerry Spinelli
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary. — William Gibson
People need to know why we, as the Jewish people, have a right to be here. We need to tell people what we are doing here... My tourism guidebook is the Bible. — Ariel Sharon
To be honest, I find going out pretty scary and intimidating. Got all those people checking you out, with only one purpose: hooking up. I'm quite the dork, I'd rather sit home and play Scrabble. But that doesn't get you a girl, does it? — Wentworth Miller
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. — Fred Rogers
It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left. — Madeleine Roux
All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis. — William Jennings Bryan
There is no publication in the scientific literature - in prestigious journals, specialty journals, or books - that describes how molecular evolution of any real, complex biochemical system either did occur or even might have occurred. — Michael Behe
It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. — Vincent D'Onofrio
It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires. — Regina Brett
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books. — Alejandro Amenabar
When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you. — Anne Lamott
It's perfect. It's awesome. Every day is just filled with just wins. All we do is put wins in the record books. We win so radically in our underwear before our first cup of coffee, it's scary. People say it's lonely at the top, but I sure like the view. — Charlie Sheen
It's a bit scary to see my book come true: the recent (if minor) LA earthquakes, Hurricane Sandy, the Boston bomber, and so on - much of it stoppable, I think, and yet I, too, am also guilty of passivity. — Edan Lepucki
Nothin’s real scary except in books. — Harper Lee
I've always remembered this quote from a book that I read as a kid. It was something along the lines of "What's scary is not necessarily what goes bump in the night, but that which whispers at midday." And I've always held that. The day can just be as scary as night. — Russell Mulcahy
When [books ban] happened, I felt completely alone and that was scary and sad. — Judy Blume
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life. — Alice Hoffman
When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that I get a better book in the end. I can't say I'm happy when I read that editorial letter. It is always a little painful and scary. But I have learned that - bit by bit - I can make the changes and do the work. — Kate DiCamillo
I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself. — Mary Downing Hahn
In a way, I'm glad I'm first because I won't have to panic about following anybody other than industry legend John Romita Jr. And he drew Daredevil: The Man Without Fear, which is one of the books that had a massive effect on me as a reader and an artist. It has been intimidating, scary, exciting, and incredibly satisfying. — Declan Shalvey
It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did. — Sophia Amoruso
My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the book. I want to get people's attention and tell them very valuable and ultimately hopeful information, and you find out nothing is as scary as your imagination. — Amanda Ripley
Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away. — Alan Weisman
It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since. — Girolamo Savonarola
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldnt get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic. — David Blaine
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. — R. L. Stine
But what Davenport had been born into had taken so much from her, leaving her with just the wickedest and the worst. Her father had given her life, and then taken every scrap of joy or freedom, and even now that he was dead, all he had left her with was a deep, abiding hatred for what she was. — Brenna Yovanoff
What I love about the thriller form is that it makes you write a story. You can't get lost in your own genius, which is a dangerous place for writers. You don't want to ever get complacent. If a book starts going too well, I usually know there's a problem. I need to struggle. I need that self-doubt. I need to think it's not the best thing ever. — Harlan Coben
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books. — R. L. Stine
But these weren't the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around-they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don't recognize them for what they are until it's too late. — Ransom Riggs
If you haven't read Zomburbia, you haven't read about zombies. This is a new take and it is scary, freaky, and original. Gallardo resets the zombie bar and it's sky-high. Get this book! — Nancy Holder
I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don't know what to expect. But once you look into your child's eyes, you forget about that. — Michael Jordan
There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend. — Rick Yancey
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo! — Stephen Colbert
They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead. — Jonathan Maberry
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