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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

M. C. Escher

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

William S. Burroughs

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Greta Garbo

It was a freak thing. It was frightening.

Brian Reece

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Victor Hugo

Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.

Charles Keating

It's very frightening. One day it's going to wash through and keep going.

Jim White

Normally it is a frightening thing to think a 13-year-old could commit murder in the first degree, With this evidence, there is no doubt that is what (he) has done.

Andrew Baird

The interesting and frightening thing about a crime is that you can't look at an individual and determine if that's someone you need to be concerned about as far as your children go.

Tom Evans

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

This, we think, is an attempt to frighten the media.

Jose Torres

I get very depressed, ... American students are so much lazier. They don't work a fraction as hard as the Chinese do. It's frightening how behind we are.

Catherine Roberts

The atmosphere out there was frightening and at the same time very sad.

Sarawut Wichiensarn

We are looking for a way to describe it that is not phony and doesn't frighten people.

David Emerson

For her, the news that this disaster was coming their way was very frightening. We can all be certain that this will have a widespread effect, and she will see things that she has never experienced.

Sue Kouf

We've heard from students already that their family members were deported. It's very frightening.

Susana Almanza

We knew the crowd would be with us today and the volume was frightening. This is the best crowd in the country.

Glenn Roeder

The jump is so frightening between where I am and where I want to be...because of all I may become I will close my eyes and leap!

Mary Anne Radmacher

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

This ruling sets a frightening precedent.

Maria Lahood

A good part - and definitely the most fun part - of being a feminist is about frightening men.

Julie Burchill

This case is frightening. Everything points to the fact he did not get a fair trial.

Michael Gelety

Women are frightening. If you get to 41 as a man, you're quite battle-scarred.

Hugh Grant

It's exciting and frightening both.

Frank Spotnitz

I discovered that John's temper could be frightening.

Cynthia Lennon

Honest to God, I'm so happy it's frightening! I'm just so chuffed - that's all I can say.

Robbie Fowler

They were furious because I'd bagged a Beatle! It was so frightening.

Pattie Boyd

You have to have the courage to wait, to say no, ... And that's difficult. This job is very uncertain, and it's frightening.

Juliette Binoche

That's frightening and, frankly, it scares the hell out me. We're going to have an epidemic of lung cancer in China if we don't have one already.

Otis Brawley

Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first.

Billy Sunday

Pushing through fear is less frightening than living with the underlying circumstances that come from a feeling of helplessness.

Susan Jeffers

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens Van der Post

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Doris Day

It's a frightening situation that could happen to anyone -- there is a very dangerous man out there.

Inspector Dennis Maffei

The food wasn't going anywhere and I totally couldn't breathe. It was very frightening.

Penny Brown

It's a frightening problem.

Michael Barnes

It was so frightening.

Patricia Richards

I couldn't finish out the rest of the day when I hit that individual. It was a frightening and horrible experience.

Carl Harris

Gold above $600 is frightening. It appears that people expect inflation, and that people don't have trust in our currency.

Felix Rohatyn

When we looked at these regulations, we found a number of frightening divergences from the way the law is written.

Bobbie Chase Wilding

She didn't tell me nearly as much. I think she didn't want to frighten me.

Darlene Mcintosh

It's somewhat frightening that what he took was so easily found out.

Tom Glavine

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

Saul Steinberg

It was a frightening time.

Barbara Lindsay

It's not ideal, but we've done it before. It doesn't frighten us, but ... well, when there's a drop-off, you do have to avoid the edges. But it makes is a little more exciting.

Michael Mead

It's a frightening thing. To go to France, the elder daughter of the church, it's always called, and you get the feeling the church has gone away.

John Wilkins

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.

Paula Rego

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Susana Almanza

The evidence will be that these 168 people died a violent and frightening death, ... Many were amputated and some were decapitated.

Pat Ryan

They don't frighten us any more.

Bruce Forsyth

I've never been through anything like that before, ... It was frightening. When you're down like that, there's always a possibility of you not being able to play this game.

Louis Post

These Arizona bills must not become law. They would set a frightening precedent.

Pamela Madsen

The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil.

George Saunders

It really was an incredible creature as frightening as it is. It was his domain, and he was the boss, he was going to decide my fate ... I'm lucky to get away as I did.

Jonathan Genant

The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening.

Jennifer Campbell

They look terrible and very frightening if you're in the airplane, but in fact it's a very small problem.

John Nance

It's so serious, it's frightening. This is a tough place to find someone.

Elvis Duran