James Marsters

When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.

American Actor

Jordan Peele

I was a very scared child. Not, you know, not so much of life but of the demons that lurked in the dark. And horror movies terrified me. You know, I'd love watching them but then at night, I would just be up in sweats all night.

James Nesbitt

Like the character I played in 'Jekyll', we all have different masks we put on for different occasions. As much as we all want to lead decent lives, we're also attracted by the idea that something dark may lurk within us.

Irish Actor

Mike Barnicle

Most cops are not looking for understanding. They work in a world filled with a sense - real or imagined - of danger lurking around each corner and every hallway. Most cops are merely looking for respect.

American Journalist

John Millington Synge

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

Irish Poet

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

Finnish Musician

Ethan Canin

I like writing about the evil lurking in apparently good people.

American Author

Robert J. Sawyer

Psychopathy might lurk behind the mask of sanity.

Canadian Writer

Virgil

Roman Poet

Aristophanes

Greek Poet

Lurking implies waiting with a potentially harmful intent, often secretly.

Negative Connotation

'Lurk' suggests hiding out of sight, not just staying unnoticed.

Physical Concealment

On the internet, lurking means observing quietly without engaging.

Online Behavior

Lurking online implies an invisible presence in the digital space.

Invisible Presence

Lurking can suggest a hidden risk or danger that's not immediately obvious.

Implied Threat

Use 'lurk' to describe a vague feeling of discomfort or anxiety that's hard to pinpoint.

Subtle Unease

'Lurk' often describes moving slowly and quietly, trying not to be seen or heard.

Stealth Movement

Using 'lurk' implies an intention that is often insidious or sinister.

Ill Intent

 Unconscious bias is not the same as conscious discrimination. I'm not saying that in all of you, there's a secret sexist or racist or ageist lurking within, waiting to get out. That's not what I'm saying. We all have our biases. They're the filters through which we see the world around us.

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 heretofore has not been accessible to us but we have the technology what we lack is the will to get down there and see for ourselves what's lurks within the ocean itself and yet every scientist every kid every CEO every president every person every citizen should have

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 the rules that can restrict the amount of carbon dioxide emitted from power plants, and make energy companies around the world wary of what they put into the air. Until then, every time you turn on a screen or flick a light switch, coal is lurking in the background,

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 The leading theory is that our skin has evolved to be acutely aware of touch so that we're equipped to deal with risks from the outside world. Think about it. Our automatic scratching response would dislodge anything harmful that's potentially lurking on our skin,

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 base some of their most important decisions on organized data. But there's a problem with that. Any set of statistics might have something lurking inside it, something that can turn the results completely upside down.

How statistics can be...

 "But the threat of death lurks in both of our shadows." In those lonely first weeks and months of my recovery, these strangers and their words became lifelines, dispatches from people of so many different backgrounds,

What almost dying taught...

 - Sea monsters are considered to be mythical creatures at the center of tall tales. But science tells a story of real-life monsters lurking in Earth's prehistoric seas, monsters called plesiosaurs.

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 on land but killer plants also lurk throughout the wetlands and waterways of our world found on all continents except antarctica waterborne bladderworts are free-floating plants that can grow up to

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 and is considered a master of magic lurking in the mundane. This is a key feature of magical realism. In contrast to fantasy, magic in this sort of writing rarely offers a way out of a problem.

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 fish or in rare cases a human but among its lethal tentacles lurks a

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