A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!? — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
In neurotics, worm phobias are usually found as well as snake phobias. — Karl Abraham Copy Share Image
My biggest phobia is spiders. When I was in second grade, one of my classmates got bitten. That did it for me. — Vanna White Copy Share Image
I got over the whole British eating-with-hands phobia very quickly when I was working with Oxfam in Tanzania. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation. — Rick Hoffman Copy Share Image
I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom. — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in… — Norman Wisdom Copy Share Image
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of."… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
One of those things I never exactly cared for was that phobia of appearing to be rich. To become rich is a… — Antonio Ermirio de Moraes Copy Share Image
After over half a century of employer-provided health care coverage, the American people have developed a phobia of paying for health insurance… — Arnold Kling Copy Share Image
I was afraid of small spaces and I was afraid of the tree outside my window, and I had all these phobias.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
“If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“There is more to stuttering than the mere repetition of words and phrases. And more to anxiety than just being nervous.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life… — Charles Beaumont Copy Share Image
“With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is… — Capt Tom Bunn LCSW Copy Share Image
This whole concept of boots on the ground, we've got a phobia about boots on the ground. If our military experts say,… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
When I was a teenager, if anyone recognized me for anything I did, it would ruin my day. I couldn't handle it.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely you've got a phobia or two.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Fiction writers come up with some interesting metaphors when speaking of plot. Some say the plot is the highway and the characters… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
“Glenn could see I was bricking it and turned round to me as I sat there, gripping the armrests. "You all right?"… — Paul Merson Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Haymitch isn't thinking of arenas, but something else. "Johanna's back in the hospital." I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
“Specific parts of you personality may be angry and are usually easily evoked. because these parts are dissociated, anger remains an emotion… — Suzette Boon Copy Share Image
It is also an absolute mistake to believe that the State can be anything other than a civitas diaboli if it does… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I believe that our society's "mistake-phobia" is crippling, a problem that begins in most elementary schools, where we learn to learn what… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
In the story ["The Pyramid and the Ass"] there's this war against the so-called Buddhist Terrorists. As we find out, they're not… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
It has affected me very much in the last 10 years. I get it from my grandmother. She was very superstitious as… — Rory Gallagher Copy Share Image
“I had to stop him from arresting an old lady who let her dog urinate against the fire hydrant that was in… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image