Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there. Anne McCaffrey
Chemical and biological attacks are scary and will kill a lot of people but don't rise to the level of nuclear. Nelson DeMille
For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous. Sanya Richards Ross
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. Margaret Atwood
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me. Amanda Seyfried
I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there. Melissa de la Cruz
I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined. Tim Ferriss
I really liked drama and being in plays, so when I was playing a character onstage and I could act like somebody else, then I wasn't scared or nervous, but I didn't like meeting new people when I had to be myself. That was scary. Meg Cabot
It's a perfect wave when small and the most beautiful and scary wave on Earth when it's big, as the swell from deep water hits the shallow reef ledge. A ten-foot high wave and a 30-footer break in the same depth of water. Kelly Slater
It's scary to become a woman in this world. We have to understand that some of the messages we get, messages that we are not enough, are there to keep our power in check. We can't buy into these messages. Francesca Lia Block
It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city. Kevin Garnett
Retiring was scary and it was tough to give up gymnastics, but so many great opportunities have come from it that I never expected. Shawn Johnson
Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down. Max Brooks
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.Michael Chabon
That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary. Max Brooks
Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing. Lance Armstrong
When I was eight or nine, there was a very scary case of a guy who murdered four children in my community. I had no conscious memory of it, but now I'm sure that we all must have felt for these kids. We must have felt it, but no one was saying anything. I wonder now how much that impacted on me without my knowing it. The past is never really past. Megan Abbott