Nightmare famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Cities really are mental conditions. Beijing is a nightmare. A constant nightmare.
-- Ai Weiwei -
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.
-- Alan Rickman -
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
-- Aleksandar Hemon -
The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.
-- Amy Lee -
The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare.
-- Angelina Jolie -
One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
-- Anne Sexton -
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
-- Anthony Daniels -
Martin Luther King did not stir his audience in 1963 by declaiming 'I have a nightmare'
-- Anthony Giddens -
Die Welt der Kunst & Fantasie ist die wahre, the rest is a nightmare.
-- Arno Hintjens -
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
-- Benicio Del Toro -
There is a shotgun wedding going on and its between Marketing and IT. Finance's worst nightmare
-- Beth Comstock -
There is an excitement about having nightmares.
-- Betsey Johnson -
I'm really obsessed with 'Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares.' I really don't know why.
-- Brett Dalton -
To exclude anything that appears in your universe is not love. Love joins with everything. It doesn't exclude the monster. It doesn't avoid the nightmare - it looks forward to it.
-- Byron Katie -
There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from.
-- Byron Katie -
Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature.
-- Camille -
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
-- Charles Bukowski -
We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true...
-- Charles Schumer -
you ever been trapped in a world where you're everyone's worst nightmare?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!
-- Clive Barker -
I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
This is every writer's nightmare--the sudden breakdown of meaning in the language that sustains and supports us...
-- Dan Simmons -
I am actually a big sissy, and growing up, I never used to watch horror movies. Bambi gave me nightmares.
-- Danielle Panabaker -
You describe your reality in the highest resolution even when it’s a nightmare and in doing so, you live your own life, not a cliche others have formulated for you.
-- David Grossman -
I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
-- David Icke -
To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.
-- Dick Cavett -
The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams.
-- DMX -
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?
-- Doris Kearns Goodwin -
The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
-- Edward Abbey -
'Eraserhead' is a weird, horrible nightmare, and it doesn't narratively make sense. Stuff's happening, but you honestly feel like you're in a nightmare, and it has such disturbing imagery that it stays with you forever once you've seen it.
-- Eli Roth -
I love acting. When I'm acting I feel like I'm on vacation. I'm just having a wonderful time. The nightmare is just getting the work to happen.
-- Elizabeth Pena -
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.
-- Eminem -
best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
-- Gail Caldwell -
Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.
-- Gary Busey -
The eurozone status quo is neither tolerable nor stable. Mainstream economists would call it an inferior equilibrium; I call it a nightmare - one that is inflicting tremendous pain and suffering that could be easily avoided if the misconceptions and taboos that sustain it were dispelled.
-- George Soros -
Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress
-- Gina Gershon -
One didn't stop to talk with creatures from one's nightmares.
-- Guy Gavriel Kay -
Our artists have the power to bring our dreams and our nightmares to life so we will never forget.
-- Hetti Perkins -
Without their money, the Jews will shrink into mere shadows of themselves, and the nightmare will be over.
-- Israel Shamir -
Donald Trump says he’s President Obama’s worst nightmare. That’s not true. Having to make a decision is Obama’s worst nightmare.
-- Jay Leno -
Mum decided that I could sing a bit, so she put me in a choir, which I hated and it was just a nightmare. I was a rebellious sort of choirboy.
-- Jesse Spencer -
A vision without action is called a daydream; but then again, action without a vision is called a nightmare.
-- Jim Sorensen -
I believed the reason there was a God was to prevent such atrocities from happening to the same person twice. But nothing prepared me for this: I have done what I've sworn I could never do; I have become my own nightmare... I have lost control.
-- Jodi Picoult -
I don't like cruises. Period. My biggest nightmare is being stuck on a boat.
-- Joe Flanigan -
Getting trapped back in the '80s, it's almost like a comic nightmare, which for me is a very real nightmare. Every time I flip through the cable, I have flashbacks.
-- John Cusack -
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me.
-- John Mayer -
I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.
-- John Travolta -
Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.
-- Jon Ronson -
I am a huge, huge, huge fan of index funds. They are the investor’s best friend and Wall Street’s worst nightmare.
-- Jonathan Clements -
The truth of actually working on a movie set is that you're in the midst of a logistical nightmare. There are so many things going on. There are many factors that keep your ideal scenario from ever happening. And you're rarely going to get that.
-- Joseph Gordon-Levitt -
Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, “I still dream about you.†“I have nightmares about you.†I dragged my T-shirt over my head, threw it aside.
-- Josh Lanyon -
I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32.
-- Julie Delpy -
Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare.
-- Juliet Marillier -
Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.
-- Kami Garcia -
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.
-- Karl Marx -
GET RID OF MEANING. YOUR MIND IS A NIGHTMARE THAT HAS BEEN EATING YOU: NOW EAT YOUR MIND.
-- Kathy Acker -
The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.
-- Kaza Kingsley -
I'm gonna have nightmares about kids eating free.
-- Kevin Harvick -
Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare?
-- Kevin R. Stone -
It's a nightmare if you're working with someone you don't get on with, especially if you have to be in love with them.
-- Kit Harington -
All I ever had before you was nightmares. But now I dream. Because of you.
-- Larissa Ione -
I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
-- Lauren DeStefano -
I tried water polo and my horse drownedthat was a nightmare.
-- Lee Evans -
I did an O-level in domestic science when I was at school, but on the day of the practical exam, it was a cookery nightmare.
-- Lesley Nicol -
The worst nightmare for al Qaeda is to come into a community that feels supported and has hope.
-- Lindsey Graham -
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
-- Lisa Marie Presley -
Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much.
-- Louis de Bernieres -
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
-- Mahmoud Darwish -
If only the peace I feel right nowcould be stored up and released laterwhen cruelty surrounds mein the darkduring nightmares.
-- Margarita Engle -
I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft spot for logistical nightmares.
-- Maria Semple -
I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
-- Mark Z. Danielewski -
I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.
-- Marlon Brando -
Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.
-- Max Beerbohm -
Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.
-- Merrill Markoe -
I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars.
-- Michael Caine -
Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.
-- Michael Jeter -
If it is possible to be happy in the middle of a nightmare, then Topthorn and I were happy that summer.
-- Michael Morpurgo -
The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.
-- Michael S. Harper -
The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.
-- N.K. Jemisin -
Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.
-- Nathan Englander -
Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me, but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force I should feel it should be resisted.
-- Neville Chamberlain -
The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.
-- Norman Mailer -
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
-- Oliver Stone -
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
-- Oscar Wilde -
My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.
-- Peter Andre -
I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head.
-- Peter Molyneux -
Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
-- Peter Ustinov -
I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?
-- Poppy Z. Brite -
Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.
-- Rachel Cohn -
Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are being treated the worst are the young people who are going to lead us out of this nightmare.
-- Rachel Jackson -
Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.
-- Ransom Riggs
