#terrifying

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The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.


Ronald Reagan


#english language #government #help #here #i

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.


Ellen Barkin


#being #called #came #cancer #catch

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.


Jimmy Carr


#down #i #i think #older #partly

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.


Thornton Wilder


#her #inflict #jests #most #nature

Marriage is actually really terrifying. It doesn't work for many people.


Katherine Heigl


#many #marriage #people #really #terrifying

Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening.


Jenny Holzer


#atrocious #bad #case #chance #completely

My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.


Augusten Burroughs


#basically #beat #bright #drawn #father

Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.


Doug Coupland


#children #clowns #drink #living #out

Songwriting is the most terrifying thing to me, because you are really laying your heart out there.


David Friedman


#heart #laying #me #most #out

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.


Maya Lin


#designed #ends #futile #i #iii