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I'm sure she's terrified. I'm hoping she comes out and starts looking for people.

Jil Walton

I wanted to bawl my eyes out. I was terrified. I felt like I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Christina Kim

Our son is terrified of him.

Linda Moore

You don't want a bunch of people panicking and terrified that we're not going to be able to do anything for them. We're developing our communications plans right now, and based on what we know, we can have some of that ready.

Deb Steffen

I'd be terrified [to let the mayor testify]. He's not a very articulate guy. When he answers questions, he answers in funny ways. He's Mayor Malaprop being asked questions by federal agents who want him to say something wrong so they can get an indictment.

Patrick Cotter

Blood was running down the side of his face and I was screaming his name but he didn't respond. ... I was terrified and thought I was going to die.

Hillary Peterson

I nodded off and ended up in the other lane. It terrified me ... I felt sleep deprived. I never felt like I got enough rest.

Barbara Robinson

I was just blessing God. As a mother, I was terrified. But now, instead of weeping and thinking that could have been my daughter, now I'm weeping to thank God she's with me and praying for the others.

Juanita Johnson

The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make prison visits.

Steve Hiltz

I lived in an apartment in Los Angeles that had six stone stairs. I was terrified I would fall, but the owners wouldn't put up a railing.

Tina Kinzel

At first when I drove, I didn't want anyone else in the car with me. I was terrified that something could happen and someone would get hurt.

Max Bolin

Bob was terrified of dancing. He thought it was for sissies.

Helen Chandler

I'm terrified I won't have a home to go home to.

Susan Smith

It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.

Maya Lin

It is a daunting challenge if you have 100 funds to choose from. People are terrified that they will make a mistake. They say that they will figure it out tomorrow. But tomorrow will be no different than today.

Barry Schwartz

People in Los Alamos are terrified.

Sarah Meyer

I went on a children's roller coaster once when I was maybe 12-or some age when I was considered a little old to be on a kiddy ride. Absolutely terrified. Thought I was going to die.

Rachael Leigh

[The team found large groups gathered in churches and multi-story school buildings. They came across about 60 deaf children huddled inside a school for the deaf with only two adults watching over them.] They were terrified and couldn't communicate with us, ... They were scared at first to get on the boats. They didn't know who we were or where we were going to take them.

Robert Davidson

It was kind of a blur. I was terrified. I'd always been a behind-the-scenes type of person. I never wanted to be Tommy Trojan.

Chuck O'donnell

My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.

Kate Bush

I was both excited and terrified, ... This was the ultimate dead-end. On the one hand, it would be great if I could find him -? it would be the most remarkable story filled with human drama. Then I was thinking, 'I will never get it.' How do you get someone to talk about the most damaging emotional moments in their life?

John Colapinto

I also did some really crappy TV, like 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Jag,' 'The Sentinel' and 'Viper,' ... My very first job was on an NBC sitcom called 'Brotherly Love' starring Joey Lawrence and his brothers. I was terrified. I think I got the job because I'm short enough. I'm five feet five inches and he wears lifts in his shoes.

Anne Morrison

I was terrified. I didn't know what was going to happen to me, ... And I was in a lot of pain.

Shoshana Johnson

We are extremely concerned, since the people are terrified. We are absolutely sure that it's not that the people turned around themselves. They are being forcible prevented from leaving Kosovo.

Kris Janowski

I'd just come out and I was just like ... People are going to think that somehow I'm involved and I was so terrified ... of my own persona, my own profile.

Brian Roberts

I was terrified of being a teacher. To stand in front of a classroom, the responsibility is boggling. Imagine! Standing in front of people!

John Glover

I'll never understand what it's like to live in a world where there isn't such a thing as nuclear weapons. I remember learning about them in school, and I was terrified.

Chad Person

I can never practice. I'm terrified of losing my skills after going months without playing ... before I came (to Ohio State), drums and music were my life.

Brian Polzner

I was OK until that roof fell off. I was terrified then. Otherwise it hasn't been too bad. People are so nice and the people staying here have really been cooperative. But the washrooms are terrible.

Anice Sexton

We're heading into the really bad part of the winter and I'm terrified for the elders and the children and the disabled who have already exhausted their [energy assistance] benefits.

John Drew

All of these union bosses are terrified that the governor's reforms are going to take power and influence out of Sacramento and give it back to the people of California, ... The debate over the special election is a simple one — vote yes on the governor's reforms if you want real change, vote no if you are happy with the way things are.

Todd Harris

When the time came to begin I was so completely terrified that my legs turned numb.

Minnie Driver

She has joked about doing that, but I don't think any us of in the business would be too terrified.

Tom Perkins

I know, from what I heard second hand, that a lot of members of his [senatorial] staff are apparently terrified of him, ... But he never portrayed those kind of characteristics in law school. He always had a smile, he was always sociable with people, and those are the kinds of qualities I see now -- the same old Arlen I've always known.

George Freeman

Sometimes they were so terrified they'd wet their jumpsuits.

Anthony Lagouranis

Working Title gave me the job, and I was both excited and terrified.

Charles Ii

We thought he was gonna die. I mean, at that moment, you?re terrified. You?re just ? you don?t even care about anything. You don?t care about the money.

Peggy Ferlini

People are so isolated, and so alone, and so suspicious, and so competitive with each other, and so sure that they are about to be conned by their neighbor, or by their mother, or by their sister, or their grandmother. What's the use of having fifty percent of the world's wealth, or whatever it is that you have, if you're going to live this pathetic, terrified life?

Arundhati Roy

A terrified dog would be useless scientifically.

William Lane

I nearly shot a young girl who had a handgun in her hand and was intoxicated, shooting wildly into the darkness. She was terrified and I was terrified.

Rob Levy

I was terrified and could easily have flipped the car.

Anne White

Our culture has become something that is completely and utterly in love with its parent. It's become a notion of boredom that is bought and sold, where nothing will happen except that people will become more and more terrified of tomorrow, because the new continues to look old, and the old will always look cute.

Malcolm Mclaren

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Milan Kundera

I just sat there and held him for a while and looked into his eyes, ... He was terrified of dying, and I was trying to focus him, to talk him down. There was nothing else I could do.

Gregory Henderson

Fresh in my mind now is how they tortured her to death, how terrified she looked prior to her death. . . . That will be an image that stays with me and my family the rest of our lives, ... She was beautiful, she was alive, she was a human being and had a family willing to . . . show her compassion as every human being deserves. But the courts decided she would be better off dead.

Bobby Schindler

I'm hoping that she has hunkered down somewhere, that she's terrified and she's hiding for a couple of days before she's brave enough to come out.

Alan Hicks

When I see these women, they are scared to death of getting out and going back to their old playmates and play places. They are terrified that they will have nowhere else to go.

Rev. Marilyn Powell

It's exciting that the network feels we're strong enough and the show is quality enough to be put in a slot that has housed a lot of great comedy. [But] as far as affecting our work, I wake up every morning and go to bed every night absolutely terrified that I won't do a good episode of TV, and I'm going to feel that way whether we're on Tuesdays, Thursdays or Sundays at 10 am. It doesn't matter.

Greg Garcia

But I'm dying now and done for, / What on earth was all the fun for? / For I'm old and ill and terrified and tight.

John Betjeman

Little old ladies were terrified. At least those not interested in baseball.

Bill Gleason

We were terrified at the idea of producing two papers. But when The Times went fully compact, we looked at it very seriously. It took away that whole argument that you lose quality if you are a compact newspaper.

David Fagan

The idea makes you laugh, and you're instantly sympathetic. We've all lived through that moment where we had sex for the first time. You're terrified, so the idea of a guy so scared he let it get past him is relatable to us.

Judd Apatow

I didn't know to be as terrified as I should have been, ... I was sort of sent to the edge and told to jump off.

Maureen Mcgovern

Many residents want to leave because they are terrified and have reason to be terrified. They wonder if it will happen again.

Robert Walters

I can't help smiling away and putting that showbiz face on. But behind the smile, I'll be absolutely terrified.

Bonnie Langford

Sandwich-generation workers are terrified of losing their jobs, so they keep their situation under the radar.

Kathie Lingle

But we were terrified to play those songs live. We're a real balls-to-the-wall, rip-your-face-off kind of band, and for us to slow it down, there's a natural reaction to wonder 'What if nobody wants to hear those songs?' What if we start playing those songs and our fans are freaking out?

Tomo Milicevic

They're terrified. When you speak to someone for the first few minutes they're speechless. You now have two evils to choose from: do you live with a nuclear Iran, or do you trust the U.S. administration in launching a war with Iran, despite the whole debacle in Iraq?

Riad Kahwaji

The only people who are happy about this, ... are CAIR and the corporate weasels at ABC who go to bed every night terrified that someone will call them insensitive.

Michael Graham

Transitioning out of foster care is a hugely emotionally and psychologically overwhelming thing. ... On one hand they really want to be on their own, and on the other hand, they're terrified.

Cynthia White

These wolves are completely terrified of us. They need to be. If they have even a chance at survival in the wild they need to be afraid of humans.

Jackie Fallon

They are terrified they will make a mistake.

John Doran

People didn't realize he actually entered the hospital after the verdict. He was dehydrated, he had lost a tremendous amount of weight, he was having trouble keeping food down, he was terrified about what was going happen to his children and he had a recurring back problem.

Tom Mesereau

Since her murder, parents are terrified of their children going backpacking.

Tom Griffiths

They are terrified with the prospect of coming face to face with Ms. Teale, ... No one has been more directly affected by the actions of Ms. Teale and Bernardo.

Tim Danson

The thought of going through the terrible twos with twins terrified me.

Heather Casey

It was the highlight of my career. The Ryder Cup is amazing. It is the most terrified I have ever been on a golf course.

David Feherty

In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, ... A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.

Evelyn Lau

He's really just terrified about the whole thing -- maybe the arrest of the suspect or just the whole scene out there.

Estella Olquin

Once I got to the boy, it's weird, but any feelings of being scared or terrified kind of left me. I felt panicky after I stepped back and the paramedics took over.

Eric Harper

I was totally terrified and there was nothing I could do. It was my worst fear and it's so bizarre to have your worst fear suddenly come true.

Elizabeth Dunn