Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but I told that story around the campfire… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in tears?” — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening. — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Alisha was now sitting in a shabby armchair with her face buried in a tissue. ‘It’s when someone is kind,’ she whispered,… — Elizabeth Tebby Germaine Copy Share Image
I like the idea of a place that is dealing with painful, messy, frightening, and very human events that is also so… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The Rwandan policy of putting the genocide behind them is incredibly effective in many ways. But it's also incredibly frightening to think… — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
We never let go. Ever. Even with punctuation. It's frightening. I can't see anyone from any record company ever writing an email… — Chris Lowe Copy Share Image
When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I… — Alain Resnais Copy Share Image
One of the most memorable and frightening things when I was four or five was Kate Bush doing 'Wuthering Heights.' She did… — Matt Berry Copy Share Image
As long as the people don't fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is the utterly destructive quality. When you say vanity, you are thinking of the kind that admires itself in mirrors and… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
“Incendiary That one small boy with a face like pallid cheese And burnt-out little eyes could make a blaze As brazen, fierce… — Vernon Scannell Copy Share Image
The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires… — Jeremy Griffith Copy Share Image
“But they could be frightening, too. “Watching Watergate in Archie Bunker Country,” said the cover of the June 18 issue of New… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Remembering how my mother looked before she gave birth to my sister is frightening. But even more frightening is the feeling that… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
“There is a wide yawning black infinity. In every direction the extension is endless, the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think… — Nancy Mitford Copy Share Image
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It is these black clothes," said Strange. "I am like a leftover piece of funeral, condemned to walk about the Town, frightening… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
If frightening sensations are not given the time and attention they need to move through the body and resolve or dissolve, the… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts… — Wanda Koop Copy Share Image
I know, I know that it's a little bit frightening. We might as well be playing, with lightning. — The Wanted Copy Share Image
“What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can read only a few… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
I'm most drawn to characters who are compelling and repellant at the same time, very often right at the same moment, and… — James Spader Copy Share Image
“It's always a little frightening to care about something... someone. What you have, you can lose. It can break, or be stolen.… — L. Lee Lowe Copy Share Image
It's absurd that we're so quick to criticize Muslims for being fundamentalist when Christians can be just as extreme and fanatical and… — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening. — Brittany Murphy Copy Share Image
Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of… — Steven Levenkron Copy Share Image
I can climb mountains, swim cross the seas. But the most frightening thing is you and me. — Jazmine Sullivan Copy Share Image
When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet. — Hamish Bowles Copy Share Image
Cervical cancer doesn't discriminate by how much money you have. The disease affects so many - it's frightening. — Peta Todd Copy Share Image
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself — Richard Hammond Copy Share Image
