Halloween famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 Vega -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Coxe -
'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 -
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 -
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 -
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 Pickett -
Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!
-- Bram Stoker -
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 -
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 -
Everything is going killer. It's loud and dirty and everything that people expect from DOPE . This situation is nothing new for any of us and so far it's been pretty effortless. We are all crazy excited to get back to Japan and party our ***** off, not to mention that we can't wait to kick some Japanese ***** on Halloween.
-- Brian Ebejer -
This year Halloween fell on a weekend Me and Geto Boys are trick-or-treatin' Robbin' little kids for bags...
-- Bushwick Bill -
We've got a major scandal with Clinton. Plus, Halloweens on a Saturday this year.
-- C. Sue Carter -
You wouldn't believe On All Hallow Eve What lots of fun we can make, With apples to bob, And nuts on the hob, And a ring-and-thimble cake.
-- Carolyn Wells -
I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.
-- Carrie Underwood -
I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You can't ignore orange things. She once saw an orange parrot in the pet store and had never wanted anything so much in her life. She would have named it Halloween and fed it butterscotch. Her mother said butterscotch would make a bird sick and, besides, the dog would certainly eat it up. September never spoke to the dog again — on principle.
-- Catherynne M. Valente -
I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.
-- Chanel Iman -
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
-- Charles Dickens -
There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin.
-- Charles M. Schulz -
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
-- Charles S. Swartz -
Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
-- Chris Rock -
My favorite scary movie was always 'Halloween.' I love that there's hidden emotion underneath Michael Myers' psychotic behavior. Plus, he has the best mask, hands-down.
-- Chris Zylka -
I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.
-- Christopher Mintz-Plasse -
She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind Beware the devil woman She's gonna get you She's just a devil woman With evil on her mind
-- Cliff Richard -
Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.
-- Clive Barker -
As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest.
-- Corey Feldman -
A new survey says one in three adults will be dressing up for Halloween. As for me, I'm not going to do anything. I'm going as Congress.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Halloween's eve is also known as mischief night. Kids are supposed go around playing pranks tonight. That's great, just what teenagers need -- another excuse to be jerks.
-- Craig Ferguson -
We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.
-- Craig Johnson -
I think a lot more people are getting into Halloween because it's the one time of year where adults can be kids.
-- Craig McDonald -
Waiting is one of life's hardships. It is hard enough to wait for chocolate cream pie while burnt roast beef is still on your plate. It is plenty difficult to wait for Halloween when the tedious month of September is still ahead of you. But to wait for one's adopted uncle to come home while a greedy and violent man is upstairs was one of the worst waits the Baudelaires had ever experienced.
-- Daniel Handler -
I love Halloween! I love it so much that I used to work at a haunted house every year.
-- Daniella Monet -
For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me.
-- Danny Elfman -
This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody scream In this town of Halloween.
-- Danny Elfman -
Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.
-- Darynda Jones -
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.
-- David Carson -
I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.
-- David Sedaris -
I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
-- Dean Koontz -
Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.
-- Dee Snider -
In a modern world, increasingly filled with pop culture fads and gimmicks, Lisa Morton reveals much of the underbelly history and unknown facts regarding the biggest pop culture event in history-Halloween. Her sheer delight and well-researched enthusiasm in tackling many of the unrecognized aspects of this monstrous topic makes one wonder what we don't know about everything else that should be as commonplace to our psyche as a bag of candy.
-- Del Howison -
Halloween was banned in Haddonfield and I think that the basic idea was that if you tried to suppress something, it would only rear its head more strongly. By the very [attempt] of trying to erase the memory of Michael Myers, [the teenagers] were going to ironically bring him back into existence.
-- Dennis Etchison -
Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, Voices whisper in the trees, "Tonight is Halloween!"
-- Dexter Kozen -
Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.
-- Dianna Agron -
The idea of dying and coming back is what makes the Halloween films work.
-- Donald Pleasence -
I was offered a choice of a flat salary up front or a percentage of the film's future earnings. I took the up front money. Nobody could have figured what Halloween would ultimately become.
-- Donald Pleasence -
The first Halloween was very well made. The second one was also well made, though I didn't like it as well as the first one. The third one had nothing to do with the series at all and perhaps shouldn't have been made at all.
-- Donald Pleasence -
John and I had a few meetings about what direction the sequel should take. I made some real insane suggestions. True to what you'd expect, he ignored them all and just picked up Halloween II where the original left off.
-- Donald Pleasence -
I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.
-- Donald Pleasence -
John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
-- Donald Pleasence -
At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
-- Donald Pleasence -
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
-- Douglas Coupland -
...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.
-- E. L. Konigsburg -
Being born on Halloween, there's always a party. It's a convenient birthday because you don't really have to organize a party.
-- Eddie Kaye Thomas -
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows Eve.... And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging face of the full moon.
-- Elizabeth Kim -
Everyone is different. Sometimes it's very exciting; sometimes very scary.
-- Emanuel Ax -
One need not be a chamber to be haunted; One need not be a house; The brain has corridors surpassing Material place.
-- Emily Dickinson -
After eating chocolate you feel godlike, as though you can conquer enemies, lead armies, entice lovers.
-- Emily Luchetti -
No more Internet. No more social media, no more scrolling through litanies of dreams and nervous hopes and photographs of lunches, cries for help and expressions of contentment and relationship-status updates with heart icons whole or broken, plans to meet up later, pleas, complaints, desires, pictures of babies dressed as bears or peppers for Halloween. No more reading and commenting on the lives of others, and in so doing, feeling slightly less alone in the room. No more avatars.
-- Emily St. John Mandel -
It's said that All Hallows' Eve is one of the nights when the veil between the worlds is thin - and whether you believe in such things or not, those roaming spirits probably believe in you, or at least acknowledge your existence, considering that it used to be their own. Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.
-- Erin Morgenstern -
A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.
-- Erma Bombeck -
I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.
-- Ethel Merman -
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
-- Evan Peters -
That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.
-- Fernando Flores -
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
When I was a kid I got busted for throwing a rock through a car window and egging a house on halloween.
-- Gavin DeGraw -
I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.
-- George A. Romero -
There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
-- George Carlin -
Democrats had a secret meeting in Reid's office on Halloween night at 6:15 and they hatched this plot, ... They said the only way they could get this investigation going was to do it in secret. They say they've been frustrated for a year and a half in getting this investigation into whether the administration twisted the intelligence and they're making no apologies whatsoever for it.
-- George Stephanopoulos -
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin -
Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!
-- Groucho Marx -
I see horror as part of legitimate film. I don't see it as an independent genre that has nothing to do with cinema.
-- Guillermo del Toro -
If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.
-- Gwen Stefani -
Being in a band you can wear whatever you want - it's like an excuse for Halloween every day.
-- Gwen Stefani
