Dread of night. Dread of not-night.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A scalded cat dreads cold water.
Sometimes I dread the truth of the lines I say. But the dread must never show.
If everything was planned, it would be dreadful. If everything was unplanned, it would be equally dreadful.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Far more than dreading ending up in a care home myself, I dread having to put my husband in one.
Robert Angier: He's a dreadful magician. Cutter: No, he's a wonderful magician. He's a dreadful showman.
One of my favorite vampire movies is 'Nosferatu,' which has a palpable sense of dread that's a pre-war dread.
It is not Love that is the crime and it is not Love that is the sin. It is the absence of it!” ARcher Tariq - "A Rising Darkness
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.
Time is my enemy. Time will catch up with me vocally. And I dread that. I dread to think about life without singing.
Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.
[G]randma was always afraid of something. She set aside time each day for dread. And not nameless dread. She was quite specific about the various tragedies stalking her. She feared pneumonia, muggers, riptides, meteors, drunk drivers, drug addicts, s...
A brave man will face a situation no matter how dreadful.
And yet sometimes we become the person we most dread. Or maybe we dread most the person we know we are to become.
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.
Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?
Goodreads.com could be read Good Reads, or it could be read Goo Dreads. Of course, it couldn’t be the latter, because who dreads goo?
