Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edna O'Brien

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

Arthur Conan Doyle

...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The highest morality may prove also to be the highest wisdom when the half-told story comes to be finished.

Diana Wynne Jones

Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat. Everyone looked up hopefully. 'Somebody,' said Mr. Crossley, 'seems to have sent me a Halloween message.' And he read out the note: 'SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH.' 6B thought this was splendid news. Hands shot up all over the room like a bed of beansprouts. 'It's me, Mr. Crossley!' 'Mr. Crossley, I'm the witch!' 'Can I be the witch, Mr. Crossley?' 'Me, Mr. Crossley, me, me, me!

Demetri Martin

Halloween's my favorite holiday because you don't have to spend it with your family.

Demetri Martin

Halloween: the day each year when strangers give you even more specific reasons to dislike them based on what they are wearing.

Dean Koontz

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

Damon Lindelof

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

Craig Johnson

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

Craig Ferguson

Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.

Craig Ferguson

A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.

Arthur Helps

More than half the difficulties of the world would be allayed or removed by the exhibition of good temper.

Antonio Banderas

It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.

Bayard Taylor

The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.

Miley Cyrus

I love my music so much, and I love what I'm doing so much that that has become my other half-rather than another person.

Kofi Annan

The only way to halt an escalation of violence is for Israelis and Palestinians to work towards a viable negotiating process aimed at a just, lasting and comprehensive settlement,

Susan Mann

We tried so hard just to get our serves in because that's what kills us a lot of times, ... Half of their points are because we can't serve it. ... I tried to do the same thing every time.

We're above.500 (in the ACC) at the halfway point and you have to be pleased with that. But we have to understand that we're a long way from where we want to be.

When you get to state, half of the kids will swim slower than they did at districts, half are going to go faster. It doesn't mean a whole lot what you see on paper.

Brian Austin Green

It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended up at Henry Winkler's house and he answered the door. So I got to meet The Fonz. That was cool.

Jan Morris

I half cherish the hope that the end of history will be Swissness.

Antony Beevor

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

Dee Snider

Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.

Dick Cavett

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half an hour.

Loretta Lynn

You can't be halfway in this business. If you don't meet the fans, you lose all you've got.

Alan Stern

It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons

Charles Dickens

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Charles Stross

I was Computer Shopper's linux columnist for more than half a decade, from the late 90s onwards. Yes, I know about Linux. (My first review of a Linux distro in the press was published in late 1996.)

Aiden Wilson Tozer

If I empty out half of my life, God can only fill half...God will fill as much of us as we allow Him to fill.

Dianna Agron

Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

David Sedaris

I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.