Fear

When the entertainers of the Right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call the Chicago way. – Thomas Frank

But I love being scared. I think youre brave only when you do things that scare you. Ive always used fear as a motivator. Im not sure why. – Ginnifer Goodwin

I write entirely to find out what Im thinking, what Im looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. – Joan Didion

My dear brother Barack Obama has a certain fear of free black men. As a young brother who grows up in a white context, brilliant African father, hes always had to fear being a white man with black skin. All he has known culturally is white. He has a certain rootlessness, a deracination. – Cornel West

You cant be a proper comic unless youve been out on stage and felt the fear. – Johnny Vegas

My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall – whats going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. – Jonathan Safran Foer

A childs fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate. – Julien Green

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you cant beat them, and if you cant beat them, join them, as they say. As Ive got older Ive become very interested in that part of the work. – Lars von Trier

Roosevelts declaration that Americans had nothing to fear but fear itself was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. – Russell Baker

I never discuss a novel while Im writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. – Dean Koontz

I think people that have fear that, Oh if I have a kid I wont be able to do this and I wont be able to do that. Its kind of the opposite. It really gives you energy. It makes people better. – Anthony Kiedis

I dont believe in fear – I live my life without regrets. – Puff Daddy

I have no fear of being less beautiful, Ive always been afraid of not being beautiful. – Isabelle Adjani

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. Im always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! – Camille Pissarro

Fear, anxiety and neurosis: thats just in the suitcase when youre an actor. – Laura Linney

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, its uniform color versus skin color. We have – weve overcome that level of racial fear. – Jesse Jackson

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: OK, Im getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL. – Shawn Johnson

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. Im not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. – Harlan Coben

A mans primary fantasy is access to a variety of attractive women without the fear of rejection. – Warren Farrell

The Feminist Me says that a womans right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps. – Julie Burchill