#fright

These names: gay, queer, homosexual are limiting. I would love to finish with them. We're going to have to decide which terms to use and where we use them. For me to use the word "queer" is a liberation; it was a word that frightened me, but no longer. ↗

— Derek Jarman

#finish #frightened #gay #going #homosexual

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#anyway #audiences #been #collapsed #eating

It's up to each person's parents whether they think it's too frightening or too violent, how much their kids can handle, what they want to teach them, what they want to show them. ↗

— Gina Philips

#frightening #handle #how #kids #much

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#caught #cease #event #frightens #men

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#concerts #entertainers #entertainment #funny #gifted-people

Time plays tricks between here and home," said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator. ↗

— Garth Nix

#humor #mogget #time #humor

It was the kind of scream that would be in a horror movie right before someone got chopped up into little bitty pieces. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#horror #movie #scream #movies

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#deal #determined #frightening #going #instances

The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#frightened #him #more #most #needed

Maybe it's because my mother divorced and my grandmother divorced, so maybe I'm frightened deep down. But then I also feel there is no real need. Why do I need to get married? To reassure me? No I don't need reassurance. ↗

— Juliette Binoche

#because #deep #deep down #divorced #down