Miranda July Quotes

I had water phobia since childhood without any reason as such.

We'll have to work on your bunny phobia later.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

I'm really scared of small dogs, dogs in general I guess.

I am afraid of a lot of things. A dog. I could be afraid of a dog that's upset, for example. And on the tennis courts, maybe on the outside I look fearless, but on the inside, I'm scared. There's not one player in the world who isn't nervous before matches. Especially important matches.

I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.

My crazy fear is I'm always afraid my keys are going to fall down a subway grate when I walk over it. I'm afraid they're going to jump out of my pocket and fall down. Isn't that stupid?

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.

I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

I am undeniably afraid of the dark!

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

Well, I am a giant pansy and freak out if seaweed touches my leg in the ocean.

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.

I'm very scared of water. When you don't see the water... I imagine monsters - stupid things.

I'm afraid of animals.

I have had a lifelong phobia of snakes.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Superstition, then, is engendered, preserved, and fostered by fear.

I have a weird thing with knives. I don't like knives very much. Like when my parents are cooking in the kitchen and using knives to chop vegetables, I can't be in the same room. For whatever reason, knives just terrify me.

I'm terrified of goats.

There is this thing called catastrophic thinking - you start thinking that something catastrophic is going to happen. I get on a plane and I think it's going to crash, I just know it's going to crash, so you're petrified.