Horror Quotes - Page 37

• The specific story line that people have responded to the most has been the horror of bathing suit shopping.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Shopping, People, Stories

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• I don't like the slasher stuff, myself, but I do like the psychological horror of Roman Polanski and that world. But, it's curious to me why people do like to be afraid.

  Dylan McDermott

  People, World, Stuff

  "Dylan McDermott Talks AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, His New Role on the Show, Why the Show Resonates with Viewers and Returning for Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 20, 2012.

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• By abrogating all moral standards in their war against Israel, Arab and Muslim leaders initiated a process of moral collapse that has ended by soaking their own societies in blood. The terror they intended to inflict only upon others has rebounded with a hundred times greater horror upon their own lands.

  David Frum

  War, Israel, Blood

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• I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

  Edward St Aubyn

  Laughter, Thinking

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• I love horror and sci-fi.

  Ivan Reitman

  Sci Fi

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• I loved Alien, and I loved Carrie, and I loved The Exorcist - those were big movies for me. They were just brilliantly done, and unusual, and they all took horror to some new place.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Done, Aliens, Exorcist

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• Only really good comedies and really good horror movies get a verbal response out of the audience. People will scream. People will laugh.

  Fede Alvarez

  People, Laughing, Comedy

  "Filmmaker Fede Alvarez digs up scares with 'Evil Dead'". Interview with Joseph Airdo, www.axs.com. April 4, 2013.

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• I love doing horror with comedy twists and I think it's a really fun genre.

  Katrina Bowden

  Fun, Thinking, Twists

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Writing, One Day

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also remember when I watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer [1990] at, like, age 15. That scared the crap out of me. Because it didn't operate inside the usual conventions of the horror genre in the way that I could accept. I can accept horny teenager counselors being murdered at camp. But I couldn't accept the derangement of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which was that anyone could be murdered at any moment - whole families, with no build-up music and no meaning. It terrified me.

  Christopher Bollen

  Teenager, Horror Genre, Horny

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].

  Christopher Bollen

  Book, Interesting, Shining

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.

  William C. Bryant

  Dream, Peace, Morning

  William Cullen Bryant, “Mutation”

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• Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.

  William Shakespeare

  Abandon, Remorse

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello. Appendixes”, p.449

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• Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fire, Example

  William Shakespeare, Thomas Bowdler (1850). “The Family Shakspeare, in One Volume: In which Nothing is Added to the Original Text, But Those Words and Expressions are Omitted which Cannot with Propriety be Read in a Family”, p.347

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• Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death!

  Joseph Addison

  Thinking, Filled Up, Plot

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.179

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• One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

  Paul Cezanne

  Art, Good Things, Can Do

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• I have a horror of sunsets; they're so romantic, so operatic.

  Marcel Proust

  Sunset, Emotion

  'Sodome et Gomorrhe' (Cities of the Plain, 1922, translated by C. K. Scott-Moncrieff, vol. 1, p. 296)

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• A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance!

  Charles Lamb

  Distance, Doors, Sublime

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• The Bolshevists would blow up the fabric with high explosive, with horror. Others would pull down with the crowbars and with cranks--especially with cranks. . . . Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. We must cultivate a sense of manhood by treating men as men.

  David Lloyd George

  Blow, Men, Fabric

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Guilt has always its horrors and solicitudes; and, to make it yet more shameful and detestable, it is doomed often to stand in awe of those to whom nothing could give influence or weight but their power of betraying.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Guilt, Weight

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.90

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• No acquisitions of guilt can compensate the loss of that solid inward comfort of mind, which is the sure companion of innocence and virtue; nor can in the least balance the evil of that horror and anxiety which, in their room, guilt introduces into our bosoms.

  Henry Fielding

  Loss, Evil, Anxiety

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.28

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• I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

  Clive Barker

  Thinking, Fiction, Way

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• As for famous men who were not artists, I am beginning to be tired of them. Those poor little scoundrels who are called great men fill me with nothing but overwhelming horror.

  Franz Liszt

  Tired, Artist, Greatness

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• I believe that the next half century will determine if we will advance the cause of Christian civilization or revert to the horrors of brutal paganism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Bible, God, Christian

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