Horrifying Quotations

The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.

I just like a dirty, crumbling city. The Gotham I imagine is enticing and horrifying at the same time.

I was reading about all of these medical and psychological experimental programs that the government and various intelligence agencies had run throughout the 20th century. Any book you can read on that, there's some really horrifying and fascinating stuff that goes on there.

Decades ago, women suffered through horrifying back-alley abortions. Or, they used dangerous methods when they had no other recourse. So when the Republican Party launched an all-out assault on women's health, pushing bills to limit access to vital services, we had to ask: Why is the GOP trying to send women back... to the back alley?

Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.

It felt as if my body was, like, literally betraying me because I went from a very athletic, straight-up-and-down little kid to a very curvaceous woman, and it was just horrifying to me.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.

It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.

Somebody close to me once said, 'Oh, no man will ever accept your children.' And I just thought it was the most horrifying thing someone has ever said to me in my entire life. I was determined to find somebody who would make that not true.

No one up the chain of command has ever been held accountable for what is in these horrifying images, and no true independent commission or special prosecutor has ever been allowed to investigate.

No one wants to call the attention of the public to bloodletting and heroism and the horrifying character of combat. What situation can be imagined that would promote the war and not remind people of its ambivalence?

Many people first encounter Jesus during childhood when they are suddenly confronted by a horrifying statue of a man nailed to a cross, and this is often a most unfortunate and repulsive beginning.

I can't imagine anything more horrifying than what we already know about this individual. But I'm afraid I might find he's hurt a child. I'm afraid there's a number of times he's violated children since he's been out.

It doesn't matter if you stay in a backpackers hostel or in a five-star hotel, the bedbug epidemic, particularly in high tourist areas, is horrifying and a real problem.

It is not the evil itself which is horrifying about our times it is the way we not only tolerate evil, but have made a cult of positively worshipping weakness, depravity, rottenness and evil itself.

I think this is ridiculous. I think (certain district officials) just want to get rid of me. . . . It's horrifying that this can happen. I've never, never, never been accused of anything like this. Never.

It is a bittersweet experience for the person claiming, as well as the police. It was a horrifying event, and this has become more than a job for the officers.

I would love to live in 'The Lord of the Rings.' J. R. R. Tolkien's world is so vivid and rich and sensual. I love the country setting and the routine of the hobbits. Of course, I would like to be a hobbit who goes on small adventures - not huge, horrifying ones like Frodo's quest.

We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.

That was one of most horrifying statements I've ever heard in 12 years of doing this work,

We heard reports they were kept in the dark for about four hours and were celebrating for three our four hours and later told this horrifying information.

The question is whether this government should use force to remove a 6-year-old boy from a family home in America. That's the question. And I think it is outrageous. I think it is horrifying to tell you the truth, that we would use excessive force like that,

We believe that there's a double standard out there. You can show all kinds of other horrifying images, but you can't show abortion. We're not going to accept that.

What kids are exposed to on television is more frightening and horrifying than what they see in my books.

Every American child deserves the strongest protections from some of this country's most horrifying crimes.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

This is horrifying and it's sickening. Aside from the beating itself, the other thing that was shocking to me was the officer keeping him face-down when he's in obvious distress and trying to turn on his side so he could breathe more easily. That's the classic position for asphyxia. Those officers are lucky he didn't die.

This is horrifying conduct. No matter what side of the aisle you sit on.

I'm sure everyone in this room has been told a joke about that subject. I have many times and I've laughed, even though they are horrifying and shocking. . . . I think there's no boundary at all, whether it's that subject or another.

It was just horrifying ... he was knocked to the ground.

It was horrifying to watch. The front of the house was totally engulfed by the time I got there.

I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn't control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car.

It's a horrifying sight. It's hard for me to put into words.

It's horrifying to see the extent of the human suffering,

It's horrifying when you see the lack of design sense or connection to the community. At the end of the day, we're left with oversized buildings that are insensitive to our funkiness.