Scare Quotes

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for 36 hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for 36 hours.

And the Blue Angels are coming back to scare the local population. I remember seeing old Vietnamese women ducking under the benches in Washington Square; they thought they were back in the war.

At my age flowers scare me.

There won't be editors in the future with the Internet world, with citizen reporting. That doesn't scare me.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism.

The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I printed a list of Irish names from the Internet and my husband, Dave, saw Finley on the list. I really liked it but didn't want to scare Dave off with my enthusiasm. So I used a little reverse psychology and let him think it was his idea.

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision.

I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.

I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.

Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.

I can hide, and my husband's just terrible at finding me. I do like to jump out from behind doors and scare him.

Perhaps I scare people. I don't know why.

There were also horror shows on the radio. Very terrifying and thrilling to me as a kid. They had all these creepy sound effects. They would come on at ten o'clock at night, and I just would scare myself to death.

White people scare the crap out of me.

The only two things that scare me are God and the IRS.

Don't let what you don't know scare you, because it can become your greatest asset. And if you do things without knowing how they have always been done, you're guaranteed to do them differently.

I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.