#scares

Jesus, you'd think the Black Death was sweeping the globe every three months or so...ebola, SARS, avian flu. You know how many people made money on those scares? Shit, I made my first million on useless antiradiation pills during dirty bomb scares. ↗

— Max Brooks

#manipulation #pharmaceutical-industry #scares #death

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control. ↗

— Red Adair

#control #everybody #face #finished #hurt

L.A. kind of scares me. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

#me #scares

What scares me is what scares you. We're all afraid of the same things. That's why horror is such a powerful genre. All you have to do is ask yourself what frightens you and you'll know what frightens me. ↗

— John Carpenter

#ask #frightens #genre #horror #know

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#community #hell #important #important people #intelligence

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan. ↗

— Erica Jong

#grade #grade school #language #lives #most

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me. ↗

— Jeremy London

#being famous #dreamed #famous #i #idea

Acting scares me. ↗

— John Lurie

#me #scares

The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#action movies #comedy #hard #i #like

You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away. ↗

— Adam Pascal

#daunting #get #i #inspiration #just