Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

Alain de Botton

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.

A. A. Gill

War Car Wit

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

A. A. Gill

Men Ten T

People have always liked to be frightened. People love to feel that jolt of adrenaline. People love roller coasters. People love skydiving. These things that really get your heart pumping, and horror films are sort of a safe way to get that rush I guess.

Aaron Stanford

Love Art Your

During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

Years Year White

Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Aimee Mullins

Way Us Understand

People are frightened of the unknown.

Ainsley Harriott

Unknown UN Ten

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.

Alain de Botton

Good World Words

I don't think I've ever frightened myself before when writing, but there were areas where there was terror, as though I was looking into somewhere that I didn't know existed before, and it frightened me.

Alan Garner

Writing Where Were

A man who is in control, and inside there is a frightened child - that interests me. Why? You can draw your own conclusions.

Alan J. Pakula

Your You Why

Actors are frightened little children.

Alan Rosenberg

Ten T Right

As a kid I remember being frightened all of the time, and kind of sad. I was certainly troubled. But a lot of people were, y'know? I don't really know how to measure my trouble against somebody else's.

Aldous Harding

Time Sad Were

I'm frightened a lot. I feel like it's caused me a lot of obstacles.

Aleister Black

Used Use Us

I get really frightened easily.

Alexandra Daddario

Ten T Right

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Alfred Hitchcock

War Life Good

I love doing interviews that are about work that I do, films that I make. I am not very interested in the rest. I think I have always been quite reserved and a bit frightened of that whole thing.

Alicia Vikander

Work Love Whole

It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.

Ama Ata Aidoo

Sad Mom Men

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

Amy Winehouse

Vulnerable Ten T

I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.

Anderson Cooper

Health Fear You

I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.

Andie MacDowell

Car Age Watched

I felt like I was the only person on the planet with this 'thing called depression', and I remember being frightened. I was knocked out and dopey, and I cried all of the time.

Andy Behrman

Time Wit Tim

If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me.

Angelina Jolie

At that time, people wanted to be frightened. The Thing had come out, The Day the Earth Stood Still had come out, and these were all frightening movies.

Ann Robinson

We're frightened of what makes us different.

Anne Rice

We are not a single-issue party that puts abstract policy ahead of the working lives of people. We are not bitter, frightened xenophobes.

Anthony Albanese

Research is not an obstacle, something to be frightened of. It can be one of the real joys of writing.

Anthony Marra

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

Antonin Artaud

Young photographers must experiment all the time and not be frightened of using light - freely-shooting straight into the light if need be - making an effort to get new angles on much photographed subjects, and also discovering chemical properties of film itself.

Antony Armstrong-Jones

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

Anupam Kher

To be honest, I probably wouldn't have gone to Hollywood if I hadn't been offered 'Ugly Betty' because I was a wee bit feart. But you have to make yourself frightened. That's what keeps you alive.

Ashley Jensen

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

Aung San Suu Kyi

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I sit at that typewriter, I have to be frightened of what I'm trying to do. I'm frightened by my own belief that I can actually get a story down on paper.

Barry Lopez

I'm not really frightened by experimenting - that's the main thing. I really like mixing very old beautiful pieces that are from thrift shops or that have some historical value with quite new futuristic things.

Bat for Lashes

I get people being frightened of me. One time I did this photo shoot where I had hairy armpits - I was really digging it, but they were like, 'We'll airbrush that out.'

Bat for Lashes

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

Bella Abzug

Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.

Ben Shapiro

I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated.

Billy Collins

Even leaving aside government policy, whole industries are already making expensive changes around the perceived need to 'go green.' Al Gore and countless other prophets of global catastrophe are making megamillions pushing these expensive solutions. Schoolchildren around the globe are being frightened by tales of impending calamity.

Bradley A. Smith

I was such a weird kid. The really hardcore stuff like Venom - I was totally aware of them, and I listened to some of it - but they actually frightened me.

Brian Posehn

My interest is that there is a disconnect between the science and the size of the threat that people mention about nature, the planet and the climate, and the emotion that this triggers. So we are supposed to be extremely frightened people, but despite that we appear to sleep pretty well.

Bruno Latour

I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

Caity Lotz

I hate horror movies. I get really scared, and I don't want to be scared. I don't know why, but I'm one of those people who gets frightened and can't go to sleep.

Callum Turner

You can get the best out of people if they're happy and not worried or not frightened that they're going to make a mistake.

Carl Reiner

I'm a bit frightened of the idea of a full facelift because, when you look in the mirror, you want to look like yourself.

Carol Vorderman

A lot of people are frightened by old age - by being around people who are, basically, on their way out - but I'm fascinated by it. It's an amazing thing to be around someone who has had a life well lived.

Cate Blanchett

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

Catherine Tate

Further Education should be about the ability to learn, not the ability to pay - everyone who is able should have the opportunity, regardless of their family background. I don't want to see students struggling with huge debts or frightened off even going to university in the first place.

Charles Kennedy

Though politicians and media eminences are too frightened to say so, nonmarital births are problematic. On just about any measure of development you can think of, children who are born to unmarried women fare worse than the children of divorce and far worse than children raised in intact families.

Charles Murray

In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.

Charlie Wilson