Quotes and Sayings About Halloween
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This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's the avian flu and 50 million of us are going to die.' We wanted to make fun of that fear-based culture we've been plunged into. And Halloweens the perfect metaphor for fear.
-- Adam Gollner -
It's strictly coincidental that Pluto of course was named for the god of the underworld and we're describing these Halloween moons
-- Alan Stern -
I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.
-- Alexa VegaSource : "AGENT ORANGE: Sleepover Star Alexa Vega Talks About Her New Movie!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 9, 2004.
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People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
-- Amity Shlaes -
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
-- Andre Gide -
For Halloween I'm gonna be emotionally stable. No one's gonna know it's me.
-- Andrea Gibson -
One of the tours we had scheduled - the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween, no less, was canceled at the last minute. I recommend making sure you know the numbers of your tours and destinations so you can confirm your schedule along the way. Also, though we laugh about it now, the Eiffel Tower was on strike so we couldn't go up!
-- Andrea Phillips -
The idea is to make sure that these sex offenders are occupied with constructive matters and not focused on the children who may be knocking at their doors this Halloween
-- Andrew Spano -
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
-- Anne McCaffrey -
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
-- Anne Rice -
As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.
-- Anne Rice -
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
-- Antonio Banderas -
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Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without The wild winds shout, But no, it is they - it is they.
-- Arthur Cleveland CoxeSource : Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1842). “Halloween: A Romaunt”, p.13
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'Tis the night - the night Of the grave's delight...
-- Arthur Cleveland Coxe -
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend. I assure you that there is a reign of terror in the district, and that it is a hardy man who will cross the moor at night.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
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I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.
-- Audrina Patridge -
I had Halloween parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
-- Bat for Lashes -
It hasn't even been competitive. That's the first thing we're going to have to do is just find a way to stay competitive because these (first two games) have been over by halftime. We saw that last year too (on Halloween). It was 21-3 (Steelers) at the end of the first quarter.
-- Bill Belichick -
Halloween is a day when we all get to fool people into thinking we're someone else. Or as Mitt Romney calls it, campaigning.
-- Bill Maher -
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If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.
-- Blake Crouch -
For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.
-- Blake Crouch -
His experience, there was darkness everywhere human beings gathered. The way of the world. Perfection was a surface thing. The epidermis. Cut a few layers deep, you begin to see some darker shades. Cut to the bone - pitch black.
-- Blake Crouch -
Never assume you know where someone else is coming from.
-- Blake Crouch -
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I was working in the lab late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For my monster from his slab began to rise And suddenly to my surprise... He did the mash He did the monster mash The monster mash It was a graveyard smash...
-- Bobby PickettSource : Song: Monster Mash
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
-- Bram StokerSource : Dracula ch. 2 (1897)
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We had nine pails of candy for Halloween, now we are down to one. They go for a lot of the candy mixes. I think that they buy them for themselves sometimes.
-- Brenda V. Smith -
Since I was 15 years old I've never been able to spend Christmas, Halloween or Thanksgiving (with friends and family). This was the first time I was able to enjoy a Super Bowl.
-- Brendan Shanahan -
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It's strange, because I remember the biggest point of my childhood was one Halloween when I was trick or treating and ended up at Henry Winkler's house and he answered the door. So I got to meet The Fonz. That was cool.
-- Brian Austin Green -
I don't see scary films. I certainly wouldn't go see my films.
-- Brian De Palma