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The Bat that flits at close of Eve
Has left the Brain that won't believe.
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbeliever's fright. — William Blake
Has left the Brain that won't believe.
The Owl that calls upon the Night
Speaks the Unbeliever's fright. — William Blake
I have been nervous before, but I have never had stage fright.
— Gloria Gaynor
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
— Thomas Howard
I have big, big stage fright.
— Andrea Bocelli
You are a soulless monster whose fright mask is incapable of capturing human expressions.
— Colson Whitehead
Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do
— Carlos Castaneda
Is it ... dead?" asked Tom, his voice all quivery with fright.
"A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well ... — Philip Reeve
"A town just ran over him," said Hester. "I shouldn't think he's very well ... — Philip Reeve
Society's revenge matched its fright.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next
— Kurt Vonnegut
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
— Henry Rollins
I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.
— Ethel Merman
Frightened that you'll be overcome by yourself? That a gentle monster inside of you might take over and never let go?
— Jonathan Friesen
In certain circumstances, basically shit ones, it's fight or flight. With Tommy it's always fright and flight.
— Terry Weible Murphy
I have never known stage-fright at any time.
— Kate Smith
Her scream of utter horror and fright was a sound that no one in the chamber would ever forget.
~Crispin.~ — J.L. Clayton
~Crispin.~ — J.L. Clayton
I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.
— Renee Fleming
Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
— Bill Hader
The truth is, I hate to perform. I get such bad stage fright, it makes me physically ill.
— Rivers Cuomo
It was not just for herself that she feared now, but for her baby. He must have sensed her fright, for he moved restlessly inside her.
— George R R Martin
People ask me if I have stage fright. I say, "God, no, I'm completely comfortable there. I have rest-of-the-day fright."
— Adam Duritz
Many people associate stage fright with a fear of looking ridiculous, making a bad impression. For me, it's like a kind of fever.
— Jeanne Moreau
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
— Joseph Conrad
She surrenders her bulk to the wicker armchair, which, out of sheer fright, bursts into a salvo of crackling.
— Vladimir Nabokov
It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway.
— Tom Lenk
It's never fun to be scared [about stage fright] but I think that it is important and it's healthy to always push yourself.
— Rose Leslie
Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.
— George Bernard Shaw
In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.
— Taylor Swift
I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.
— Bob Denver
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
— Catherynne M Valente
Art's the biggest vanity: the assumption that one's view of peace or fright or beauty is permanently communicable.
— Ned Rorem
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
— Guy De Maupassant
I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed.
— Stephen King
To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
— Walter Benjamin
I suffer a lot with nerves and stage fright.
— Sheridan Smith
And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT
— Nicki Minaj
Time plays tricks between here and home, said Mogget sepulchrally, frightening the life out of the telephone operator.
— Garth Nix
Stage fright is my worst problem.
— Andrea Bocelli
If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright.
— Harry J. Anslinger
To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
— Ednita Nazario
I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.
— John Dryden
Fear and hopelessness washed over her. She was looking her own mortality in the face, and it was a horrifying thing to do.
— Rose Wynters
Spring had been the season for dying in the old days. Invalids who had struggled through the dark comfort of winter took fright as the night receded.
— Mavis Gallant
I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell.
— Brian Wilson
If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
That's right ... I'm Gandalf with boobs.
(Valerie Stevens.)
— Sean Cummings
(Valerie Stevens.)
— Sean Cummings
It's about focusing on the fight and not the fright.
— Robin Roberts
And the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night. — Dante Alighieri
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night. — Dante Alighieri
No sign of pleasure greeted the announcement. The mood in the hall was leaden.
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. — Gail Carson Levine
My mood was livelier. Fright is livelier than lead. — Gail Carson Levine
When you take fright and add to it ignorance, you get hatred. That's a very unattractive equation.
— Ann M. Martin
Your fright is in your lies but your delight is in your ties,
So better get together and fight for the right. — Aram Seriteratai
So better get together and fight for the right. — Aram Seriteratai
The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.
— Craig Ferguson
I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
— Charles Hermite
I'm always aware of being observed. Always self-conscious. I'm evidently living my life with stage fright.
— Donna Cooner
Sudden fright, or rage, or other strong emotion may disperse and displace a migraine almost within seconds. One
— Oliver Sacks
She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.
— Henry James
Yes, I was scared, it was like stage fright, but I worked through it. If you've gotten to the door, you shouldn't doubt you can open it.
— Lara Fabian
Actually, I failed drama in high school because of nerves. I wasn't able to memorize the words. I had complete stage fright.
— Constance Marie
Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
— Timothy Ferriss
I don't get stage fright. I do get nervous before I play in front of big audiences [though].
— Jack Barakat
What are you?" I rasped.
It smiled. "Whatever scares you. — Kim Harrison
It smiled. "Whatever scares you. — Kim Harrison
Stop your whining. If you are frightened, be silent. Whining is for prey. It attracts predators. And you are not prey.
— Robin Hobb
I care. I care a lot. I think of Cosmopolitan all day, and I run scared. So it's a combination of fright, caring and anxiety.
— Helen Gurley Brown
Wealthy the spirit that knows its own flight. Stealthy the hunter who slays his own fright. Blessed the traveler who journeys the length of the light
— Dan Fogelberg
Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.
— Andrea Bocelli
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
— Stevie Nicks
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
— H.L. Mencken
Many men do not look their part. Wisdom may wait behind a foolish smile, bravery can gaze from eyes that cry fright.
— Mark Lawrence
Though in many of its aspects this visible world seems formed in love, the invisible spheres were formed in fright.
— Moby
People die of fright and live of confidence.
— Henry David Thoreau
You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.
— Brian Henson
It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence
— Richard Wilbur
Wanting to do it was much more powerful than the fright.
— Charlotte Gainsbourg
A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready.
— Faith Hill
I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
— Barry Humphries
It is music that causes the heart to broaden and the listener to grow cold with ecstasy and fright.
— Carson McCullers
Terror was the key, of course, for there's a fine line between paralyzing dread and galvanizing fright.
— James Herbert
Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.
— Bryant McGill
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.
— John Edensor Littlewood
When night came on, the Macedonians and the barbarian crowd suddenly took fright in one of those mysterious panics to which great armies are liable
— Thucydides
I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.
— Alan Rickman
My stage fright gets worse at every performance. During the overture I hope for a theater fire, typhoon, revolution in the Pentagon.
— Hildegard Knef
I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go
— Mitch Albom
I would have stage-fright if I had to speak with every one of the people before whom I speak.
— Karl Kraus
You're gonna really scare them grown-ups, Paddy,' said Achilleus. 'They'll be filling their nappies in fright.
— Charlie Higson
I love the way they run in fright when I turn on the kitchen light. And when I squish them on the ground, they make a pleasant crunchy sound.
— Al Yankovic
Is the goal I've set been determined by a desire to avoid the goal I should have set?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough