Samin Nosrat Quotes

I feel extremely vulnerable.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

Every time I see him [on TV], I get sick to my stomach and want to throw up.

I am a complete wuss.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Fear usually looks like anger.

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

I'm a bit of a scaredy cat. Personally, I don't like to be kept up at night.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides.

I shudder when relating it.

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away.

I get really frightened easily.

I am afraid of things which scare me. I am afraid of heights and too much love.

I'm such a scaredy cat.

At the 2018 Hero World Challenge, I felt brittle. I felt like a gust of wind could push me over if I wasn't careful.

I'm finding out that I'm not squeamish whatsoever.

I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!

I hate a hook. It nauseates me. I could vomit when I see one. It's like a rattlesnake in your pocket.

Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

The hover cars were terrifying. I manage to make it even more terrifying by having food poisoning on that day as well. Hover cars you can't get out of very easily or quickly, so that held a whole extra element of risk for me."

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.