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
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 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
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'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
To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that… — Marianne Faithfull Copy Share Image
Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening… — Laura Dekker Copy Share Image
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
Our world is... longing to see people whose God is big and holy and frightening and gentle and tender... and ours; a… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
I was big as a kid, very overweight. That caused a lot of insecurities for me growing up, and on top of… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which… — Tamar Myers Copy Share Image
I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Some of us have a hard time believing that we are actually able to face our own pain. We have convinced ourselves… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
It doesn't promise to solve or erase suffering but to transform it, pledging that by loving one another, even through pain, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we’re unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
The main thing that I learned about conspiracy theory, is that conspiracy theorists believe in a conspiracy because that is more comforting.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake,… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Our society is monstrously disjunctive, at once so efficient in war and so inefficient in caring for the welfare of its members.… — Anne Truitt Copy Share Image
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. — Saul Steinberg 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
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
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
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
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really… — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
“I'd be afraid of what would happen after. Where would I go? What would I do? I don´t want to stop existing.… — Jodi Meadows 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
I really don't want to offend anybody, but I find all forms of religious fundamentalism frightening. — Cody Fern Copy Share Image
At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out,… — Ann Robinson Copy Share Image
“Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little… — Hiromi Kawakami Copy Share Image
What I do think is really interesting is that, as I get older and more mature, I'm really attuned to how frightening… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
