Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Letterman

Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

David Letterman

Last Halloween I ran out of candy and I had to give the kids nicotine gum.

Craig McDonald

I think a lot more people are getting into Halloween because it's the one time of year where adults can be kids.

He was the first one to give us money for our Halloween party.

William Shakespeare

Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.

William Shakespeare

So fair and foul a day i had not seen.

William Shakespeare

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

William Shakespeare

Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

William Shakespeare

Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.

William Shakespeare

Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.

William Shakespeare

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

Carrie Underwood

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

William Shakespeare

I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus.

William Shakespeare

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

William Shakespeare

In the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!

William Shakespeare

Methought I was enamour'd of an ass.

William Shakespeare

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold

James M. Barrie

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

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?

George A. Romero

I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.

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.

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.

Gavin DeGraw

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

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.

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.