Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Leno

Remember when we used to worry about some weirdo having a razor blade inside an apple on Halloween? Not anymore. Like a kid today would eat an apple.

Jay Leno

My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

Jay Leno

America needs ObamaCare like Nancy Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.

Jay Leno

According to USA Today, 74 percent of Americans plan to hand out candy this Halloween. Although President Obama thinks it should be just the top 1 percent.

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.

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.

Guillermo del Toro

I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.

Ryan Clark

Ice water. He probably doesn't understand right now. He's getting himself a job somewhere if (injured) John Hall comes back. Nick Novak is going to be an NFL kicker.

Ryan Clark

Ice water, ... He probably doesn't understand right now. He's getting himself a job somewhere if (injured) John Hall comes back. Nick Novak is going to be an NFL kicker.

Josh Klinghoffer

I don't think there should be a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, period.

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Humphrey Bogart

I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.

Harold Ramis

If people work together, if they can keep a cooperative spirit and use their ingenuity and balance it all with good humor and good will, then there's nothing to be afraid of. That's the sappy part of it, ... On the other hand, every Halloween for many years when my kids were trick-or-treating I would put on my 'Ghostbusters' jumpsuit with a police flashlight to protect all the kids from ghosts.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting.

Margaret Walker

Her voice is thin and her moan is high, And her cackling laugh or her barking cold Bring terror to the young and old. O Molly, Molly, Molly Means Lean is the ghost of Molly Means.

Joe Manganiello

I was kind of a dark kid. I loved Halloween, and I loved vampires and the black and white old monster movies.

Emily Dickinson

One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.

Emily Dickinson

I must go in, the fog is rising.

Holly Black

It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The spirit-world around this world of sense Floats like an atmosphere, and everywhere Wafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense A vital breath of more ethereal air.

Hedy Lamarr

I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick.

Heather O'Neill

People give you a hard time about being a kid at twelve. They didn't want to give you Halloween candy anymore. They said things like, “If this were the Middle Ages, you'd be married and you'd own a farm with about a million chickens on it.” They were trying to kick you out of childhood. Once you were gone, there was no going back, so you had to hold on as long as you could.

Mason Cooley

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

Michael Copps

Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.

Michael Almereyda

Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

Martha Plimpton

During my teen years, for Halloween, I went as a registered voter.

James M. Barrie

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

Eric Sevareid

The most distinguished hallmark of the American society is and always has been change.

John Carpenter

In Halloween, I viewed the characters as simply normal teenagers. Laurie, Jamie Lee's character, was shy and somewhat repressed. And Michael Myers, the killer, is definitely repressed. They have certain similarities.

John Carpenter

I made a decision back in 1978 that, in a trade off for money when I directed Halloween, I would have my name above the title in order to basically brand these movies my own.

John Carpenter

Halloween put me on the map, and I'm very sad to hear of his death.

John Carpenter

Evil hiding among us is an ancient theme.

Joel McHale

I loved New Jersey. I thought it was the greatest place in the world because on Halloween kids could start trick or treating right after school. Isn't that great?