Laini Taylor Quotes

I fell off a bridge when I was, like, 17 years old and got electrocuted by 15,000 volts of electricity - fell 30 feet.

I was a nervous child, I was a bedwetter. I used to sleep with an electric blanket and I was constantly electrocuting myself.

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.

Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn't go far didn't see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.

I sleep on my stomach with my head under a bunch of pillows so if someone wants to come in and try to kill me they can't tell if I'm there or not, so they'll just leave.

What's interesting is a man with no facial hair is less intimidating than a man with facial hair, and a man who is bald is more intimidating than a man with hair.

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.

Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

I think that a lot of people would perceive my style as being intimidating. And although I don't want to intimidate kids, I am very demanding.

When I left school at 16, I became an apprentice television and radio technician, and was paid £17 a week, which was decent money in 1976. But the job turned sour when I gave myself an electric shock while repairing a television set.

I tell people all the time, men don't talk to me. Even before I was a household name or whatever, when I went to clubs, people were scared to come to me because of the way I looked.

I really sort of kept to myself. I kind of just watched the world. And I think to keep people from messing with me, yeah, you know, I went out to run track. I went out for the football team. Not because I love track or love football.

I think everybody is intimidated by Jack Nicholson. But he was really nice to work with.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

Nobody - nobody - in my division wants to fight me, because I am the hardest fight for anybody.

People forget that boxing is the art of self-defence - ideally, hit and not be hit - and maybe we should all think about that a bit more.

I can't take nothing for granted. I have to really protect myself - either get out of bounds or continue to finish the play.

I play low to the ice and that's a way I've protected myself in the past - I just felt that it was better to be safe than sorry.

Off the court, I'm a totally different person. I've heard people be like, 'Oh, so sweet, like a big ole teddy bear.' But I guess I still have that look on my face in a game. I guess I still have a vibe where it's intimidating.

His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

I have a quality where I sort of scare people. But I am who I am.

That's my only defense against this world: to build a sentence out of it.

The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands

(The Hack-A-Shaq is) just a way of telling me that you can't stop me. Thank you. I appreciate it.