Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Parkinson

No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage of supernatural activity.

Ray Bradbury

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more...

Ray Bradbury

Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'

Ray Bradbury

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

The horsepower has been there for quite awhile. With one exception, we've been in the top half since last year at Chicago.

Emmitt Smith

Don't complain to others about your troubles. Half of them don't care and the other half are glad.

Jake Epstein

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that.

Henry Rollins

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

Henry B. Eyring

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

Scare answers to scare, and force begets force, until at length it comes to be seen that we are racing one against another after a phantom security which continually vanishes as we approach.

Mary Stewart

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Patricia Briggs

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Plato

The beginning is half of the whole.

Plato

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

Plato

A work well begun is half-ended.

James Russell Lowell

Stories now, to suit a public taste, must be half epigram, half pleasant vice.

Jon Bon Jovi

A friend of mine, a friend of yours. My better half, Richard Stephen Sambora

Sheena Easton

I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.

Terence Fisher

Certainly Dracula did bring a hell of a lot of joy to a hell of a lot of women. And if this erotic quality hadn't come out we'd have been very disappointed.

Nicolas Cage

Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.

Nora Roberts

You have to trust or you're only living half a life.

Niels Bohr

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth

Miles Teller

I think a lot of times it just looks like Hollywood actors in Halloween costumes, you know? And I think what we’re going to do with Fantastic Four is going to be very grounded and it made sense to me. When I read the script, I didn’t feel like I was reading this larger-than-life, incredible superhero tale. These are all very human people that end up having to become I guess what is known as the Fantastic Four. So for me it was just a really good story and gives me an opportunity to play something different from my own skin. It’s a proper character and that’s my favorite stuff to do.

John Ruskin

Many thoughts are so dependent upon the language in which they are clothed that they would lose half their beauty if otherwise expressed.

The halfway point of the season is a week away and we'll see where we are. We're planning on being in the Shoreline playoffs at the end. That's what we're working for.

The half a percentage point rise was well and truly factored into our market,

Richard Flanagan

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

Stephen Breyer

a hallmark of American justice in the last 30 years.

David Walker

A half an inch of rain is nice, but we could use a whole lot more.

Depeche Mode

You wear guilt, like shackles on your feet...Like a halo in reverse.

And probably half of them had never wrestled.

Diana Ossana

And it's still only 50 pages of the screenplay. It's only half of the screenplay. So we did have to make up the rest.

Michelle Williams

And I think my daughter knows now that our life is split in two. Half of the year is spent with Mommy working and the other is spent with no work in sight.