Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Gaskell

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.

Katharine McPhee

I don't really dress up for Halloween.

Katharine McPhee

I love the spirit of Halloween and the energy that comes with it.

Joseph Conrad

There is something haunting in the light of the moon.

Joseph Conrad

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

Joshua Homme

A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.

Kary Mullis

The horror of it is, every goddamn thing you look at seems pretty scary to me.

Laurell K. Hamilton

I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.

John Kendrick Bangs

Bring forth the raisins and the nuts- Tonight All-Hallows' Spectre struts Along the moonlit way.

John Keats

There is an old saying "well begun is half done"-'tis a bad one. I would use instead-Not begun at all 'til half done.

John Keats

Many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death.

Loretta Lynn

We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.

M. Night Shyamalan

I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.

Lou Holtz

The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

Lord Chesterfield

We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.

Lord Chesterfield

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

Malcolm Forbes

Compliment others on the virtues they have; and they're not half as pleased as being complimented for the ones they don't have.

Gavin DeGraw

When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.

Karl Kraus

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

Pamela Anderson

I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person.

Kathy Acker

I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

Judy Gold

Halloween is an opportunity to be really creative.

Maria Mitchell

That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anyone who is not an anarchist agrees with having a policeman at the corner of the street; but the danger at present is that of finding the policeman half-way down the chimney or even under the bed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The whole truth is generally the ally of virtue; a half-truth is always the ally of some vice.

Luise Rainer

The best imitation in the world is not half as good as a poor original.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

Brian Schneider

You could see in the first half how we responded to that. We were in this race.

You can't put (Delaware State) on the line 19 times in the first half and be playing defense.

Max Brooks

Use your head; cut off theirs.

James Stewart

The markets have factored in weaker results in the first half of the year,

Jonathan Lethem

There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

Jon Snow

At Halloween a lot of young people were wearing Bush masks mocked up as an incarnation of the Devil.