Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.
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Related The bone-chilling scream split the warm summer night in two, the first half being before the scream ... PATRICIA E. PRESUTTI It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them. PHIL LESTER Unfortunately, sometimes people don't hear you until you scream STEFANIE POWERS So you're lost, uh? Happens a lot out here. You walk around for days, seeing things, losing your bea... CRAIG DAVIDSON Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a cont... IRIS MURDOCH What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity! ABHIJIT NASKAR Now, let's hear some properly terrified screaming, puny humans! HOWARD TAYLER How many ladies in the house tonight!? [Fans scream] Oh, sh*t... All you ladies scream! [Fans scream... GERARD WAY If you ask me, people in hell just scream to hear their own voice and to pass time. CHUCK PALAHNIUK In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,'... JENNIFER CARPENTER When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be su... ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON In so many places in the world, women have been prisoners for so long that they feel they have to sc... MONICA BELLUCCI Your going to come across a lot of shitty bands, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those ... GERARD WAY i am not what i seem look past my surface and you might scream ANASTASIA WILD If you need to scream, find a safe place, then scream. SCOTT STABILE You scream, I scream, we all scream for ice cream AMERICAN PROVERB Whenever I hear about people trying to rediscover the "child within," I want to scream. BILL WATTERSON Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse FRANS DE WAAL Listen to everything and everybody BUT, only believe half of what you hear because we, as humans, li... SUPER GIRL Honestly, Bob: how do you carve a scream? ILSA J. BICK A dessert to a deserter in the desert burst, "You trust your thirst. And you are too hot! You scream... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up a... K. MARTIN BECKNER Perhaps I can stay by the fire and mend your socks and scream if I hear any strange noises. KRISTIN CASHORE Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN... DEYTH BANGER For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we ... BISHOP DESMOND TUTU For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we ... DESMOND TUTU Let others scream, because ultimately you know your story PRATEEK TRIPATHI I can hear other things, too. Before you came around, I had no idea a man could make a girl scream l... DARYNDA JONES When everyone failed to hear my screams, you are the only one who heard my silence. AKSHAY VASU He told me he's changed a lot. He used to yell and scream a lot. I think a lot of times when you yel... JOE GIRARDI Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first,... OPRAH WINFREY I only scream if screaming is deserved. BILLY EICHNER Please don't insult your audience, but make sure you make the experience pleasurable and interesting... DORTHY MILLER SHORE That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild w... DEEANNE GIST Or at school you might have been prodded to come “out of your shell”—that noxious expression w... SUSAN CAIN There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of pap... LEMONY SNICKET Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream a... LISA UNGER When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresig... JOHN LENNON The crowd never sways it. A judge does what a judge wants to do. You could stand on your head and sc... BARBARA BISHOP Because art is a scream, even when it hides itself somewhere, you will find it! MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When all else fails, don't take it in silence: scream like hell, scream like Jericho was tumbling do... DAMBUDZO MARECHERA Our sex life has been ruined since the arrival of our first baby. We can't be so spontaneous because... CINDY CRAWFORD I was wrenched awake at the tail-end of a stifled scream. I fought my way up from a deep dark dream.... JANE WILSON-HOWARTH I pressed the volume [of the TV] to maybe 60. Nothing, ... I ran outside to my truck and honked the ... FOXY BROWN Colors were made to add a variety, not a segregation... PHILIP T. M. When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way... LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD She tried to scream once, but with significant portions of her larynx already compromised, what she ... JAMES S.A. COREY When he's introduced and he starts that loud scream — I'm sure you can all hear it across the way ... JIM CALHOUN A scientist is not to teach humans, but to serve humans A philosopher is not to teach humans, but to... ABHIJIT NASKAR You can bite the pillow when I make you scream. SARINA BOWEN My mum used to ride, and when she was mucking out, I always wanted to sit on a horse. And if she too... CHARLOTTE DUJARDIN Only humans smile. And the moon in its first quarter. A smile makes you look 10 years younger. CHLOE THURLOW The work of art is a scream of freedom. CHRISTO When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy! MARIA MONTEZ What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too. VERONICA ROTH So if I'm inside your head, don't believe what you might have read, you'll see what I might have sai... PHISH The dilemma is trying to set aside a large enough block of land or a large area where grizzly bears ... CHUCK SCHWARTZ One of the hardest things you'll ever do is give yourself permission to be in pain of any kind. Ther... ANNE CLENDENING They do the most horrific things to these people. They do not even look at these people as humans. BRIAN STEIDLE She might scream when the nightmares found her, but not by choice, not when she was awake. MELISSA MARR We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear wh... FRANK LUNTZ Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they'r... JEFF LINDSAY He told us at half-time he hadn't wanted to come up here and scream at us. He sort of did. JOEL CLINTON You have to scream really loud and really compel the audience to choose your show over the array of ... DAVID JANOLLARI You shouldn't say 'animals' to distinguish between humans and non-humans. We are all ani... PETER SINGER The Greek gods had personalities like those of humans and struggled with one another for position an... BARRY B. POWELL How do you rid the Earth of humans? Rid the humans of their humanity. RICK YANCEY When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have... JOHN LENNON Look, sir, I know Angua. She's not the useless type. She doesn't stand there and scream helplessly. ... TERRY PRATCHETT Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you? ILONA ANDREWS If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you... DAVID SEDARIS He's a little laid back and he's not one to yell and scream. If you make a mistake, he won't rip you... CURTIS PAINTER What is it about the sound of clapping hands? Why does it seem like an ocean of sound, breaking like... MARKUS ZUSAK Everybody has a story... and a scream. RACHEL ROBERTS Life is a roller coaster.You can either scream every time you hit a bump or you can throw your hands... UNKNOWN I'm not sure you can appreciate how much I want to lay you out before me and make you scream my name... MICHELLE HODKIN When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. LAURENCE J. PETER When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout. DR. LAURENCE J. PETER I yell and scream when something good happens. I jog around on one leg, ... You watch them on TV and... TORII HUNTER Let your work speak, Let your work scream, Let your work live, Forever. AKASH LAKHOTIA "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary ... TERRY PRATCHETT No investigation of our divine future can ignore our own animal past, or our relations with other an... YUVAL NOAH HARARI A "scream" is always just that-a noise and not music. CARL GUSTAV JUNG Being humans don't act in a way, That may relate you to non-humans. ABDUL SALAM Most days my demons are silent, but when they talk, oh, God, how they scream. WRITERSBLOCKEDMIND No one can make you 'better' emotionally, mentally, spiritually or physically. You have to find this... CRYSTAL WOODS The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who ... TERRY PRATCHETT Gnomes live ten times faster than humans. They're harder to see than a high-speed mouse. That's on... TERRY PRATCHETT No! I don't want to speak of that! But I'm going to. I want you to hear. I want you to know what's i... AYN RAND Years before you scream at somebody or embarrass one of your teammates without even thinking about i... CARLOS ZAMBRANO But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside. PATRICIA MCCORMICK I would say it's not as hard as writing, because when you're a writer, you walk right into t... DAVID SELTZER That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,... RICK YANCEY You only exist because of the agreements you made with yourself and with the other humans around you... JOSé LUIS RUIZ Oh, [god] can hear you just fine. He hears everything. Every scream. Every cry. Every whimper. Every... JASON AARON When people have hearing loss, I think they often take that burden and pass it on to their friends a... NORM CROSBY When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. HERMAN WOUK When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. CORY DOCTOROW When you hear me screaming in the stands it's because they are a part of me. CAROL IERULLI
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They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT