My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. That's a head reaction. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind. It is the sort of effect that Edgar Allen Poe gets in his story, The Tel…
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Quotes tagged ‘Terror’
Mountain Man: What do you want to do now? Toothless Man: [grinning] He got a real pretty mouth, ain't he? Mountain Man: That's the truth. Toothless Man: [to Ed] You gonna do some prayin' for me, boy. And you better pray good.
Y'know the thing about a shark, he's got... lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes at ya, doesn't seem to be livin'... until he bites ya. And those black eyes roll over white, and then... oh, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin', the ocean turns red, and spite of al…
— Carl Gottlieb, Peter Benchley, Quint, Robert Shaw, imdb.com
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
— George Lucas, Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi, Alec Guinness, imdb.com
This is my first visit to the Galaxy of Terror and I’d like it to be a pleasant one.
Wild eyes of terror pray for sex on the beach.
Captain Flint: You were right. About the toll it took. Playing this... part. Losing Miranda. The... things that losing Miranda drove me to. So, I know what you're feeling at the moment. John Silver: I perceived its effects on you. What I assumed was sorrow, loneliness, and, most of all, terror at th…
— Marc Berzenski, Josh Rothenberger, John Silver, Luke Arnold, imdb.com
[Murdock is singing in the cockpit when Hannibal joins him] Hannibal: The sleeping giant awakes. [Murdock stops singing and stares shocked at Hannibal.] Hannibal: How fast can you bring us down? Murdock: You just landed, brother.
— Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo, John 'Hannibal' Smith, George Peppard, imdb.com
Once upon a time, I lived in a great big house. With a great big yard, and a great big bedroom. And a great big older brother. But by the middle of nineteen-sixty-nine, the house and the yard and the bedroom were are all getting...smaller. Or maybe Wayne and I were getting larger. One thing was cert…
— Mark B. Perry, Narrator (Adult Kevin), Daniel Stern, imdb.com
I'm all about empowerment. I empower my Cheerios to live in a state of constant fear by creating an environment of irrational, random terror.
Cyril: As the Lord our God Himself is my witness, upon the conclusion of my current business, I shall return to this place, and visit upon you an apocalypse of such terror and destruction that you will rue, RUE, the very fact of your miserable birth!! Coroner: [munches on hot dog] I'll be here!
The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love; only for their fear.
We will fight terror wherever it is because if we do not fight it, it will fight us. If we don't reach it, it will reach us.
How could anyone ever know of the price paid by soldiers in terror, agony and bloodshed if they'd never been to places like Normandy, Bastogne or Haguenau?
— Erik Jendresen, Erik Bork, David Kenyon Webster, Eion Bailey, imdb.com
We need to dial up the terror...
Sam: So, this job as glamorous as you thought it would be? Jo: Well, except for all the pee-your-pants terror, yeah, sure.
It hurts me. It hurts me, knowing what I've done. And that pain—that pain is with me all the time. And every day I think that if I just...if I just give myself over to the blood, I can make that pain stop. It would be that easy. And every day I fight that. And I am so terrified that one day...I not…
— Kevin Williamson, Julie Plec, Stefan Salvatore, Paul Wesley, imdb.com
What do you call dangerous precipitation? A rain of terror.
Let me tell you why women, you win 99.9% of all fights. Yup. Yup, and I’ll tell you why right now. Here it is: because you are mental terrorists. You are brain ninjas and you know how to get in there with your katana and just cut us; and disappear into the night.
I was walking along a path with two friends — the sun was setting — suddenly the sky turned blood red — I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence — there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city — my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety…