Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Prelutsky

His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.

Iris Murdoch

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

Imogen Poots

If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films. I remember being a teenager, and people getting out like Halloween [1978] or Saw [2004], and watching them, and I'd kind of just stare at the television logo and blur my eyes and pretend I was watching but I wasn't because I just found that I would take the movie home with me. I can scare myself like a pro.

Gloria Naylor

Spoiled. That's all it's about - can't live without this, can't live without that. You can live without anything you weren't born with, and you can make it through on even half of that.

J. Michael Straczynski

Half-way through any big project, everyone forgets what they're doing.

J. K. Rowling

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen...

Kemmons Wilson

I like to work half a day. I don't care of it's the first twelve hours or the second twelve hurs. I just put in my half every day. It keeps me out of trouble.

Julian Barnes

The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.

Ken Burns

History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.

Jeff Smith

At halftime we picked up the intensity and took it to them for most of the second half.

At halftime we got down on ourselves but we kept talking to the kids telling them to keep their heads up and keep plugging.

At halftime I said, 'I want to put up 60, and I want to hold (Gering) under 40.

At least for the next half a year the situation is likely to remain tough.

Brian Schweitzer

at a savings of more than half or one third of what they were paying in the United States.

John Jones

At any time, anything can happen in our district. And the second half will be just as tough as the first half was.

About half the league would like him to visit,

About half of the chromosomes are pretty much intact.

Bill Gates

Absolutely. It's not going to happen overnight, and we should take the tools we have today and get those applied, because we can save half the lives just that way,

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.

Sebastian Horsley

I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.

Sebastian Faulks

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

Todd Rundgren

Behind every tree there's a new monster.

Tobe Hooper

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds.

Smiley Blanton

For without love we will lose the will to live. Our mental and physical vitality is impaired, our resistance is lowered, and we succumb to illnesses that often prove fatal. We may escape actual death, but what remains is a meager and barren existence, emotionally so impoverished that we can only be called half alive.

John Milton

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

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.

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.