Nightmare Quotes - Page 24

• Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare.

  Kid Rock

  Balls, Married, Getting Married

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• I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

  Kid Rock

  Wake Up, Driving, Prius

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• The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Hours

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• '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

  Forever, Stuff, Like You

  "24 Hours Of Horror With Eli Roth". Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Now, Tim has been really, really busy, and it's been my job now to kind of deal with everything. And trying to figure out how we balance that, logistically it's a nightmare. But these little jobs make it much easier.

  Susan Sarandon

  Jobs, Balance, Trying

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Love, Dreaming About You, Daydreaming

  "Afterthoughts".

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• Dreams were the worst. Of course I dreamed of food and love, but they were pleasant rather than otherwise. But then I'd dream of things like slitting a baby's throat, mistaking it for a baby goat. I'd have nightmares of other islands stretching away from mine, infinities of islands, islands spawning islands, like frogs' eggs turning into polliwogs of islands, knowing that I had to live on each and every one, eventually, for ages, registering their flora, their fauna, their geography.

  Elizabeth Bishop

  Dream, Baby, Islands

  Elizabeth Bishop (2015). “Geography III: Poems”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares

  Peter Ustinov

  Dream, Growing, Criminal Mind

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• I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster's paws were on my eyelids. He must have been feeling my nightmares.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Night, Feelings, Paws

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The relatively conscious whites and the relatively conscious blacks, who must, like lovers, insist on, or create, the consciousness of the others in order to end the racial nightmare and acheive our country.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Order, Lovers

  "Another Country" by Claudia Roth Pierpont, www.newyorker.com. February 9, 2009.

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• A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

  Toni Morrison

  Dream, Lipstick

  Toni Morrison (2008). “Love”, p.201, Random House

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• Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Dream, Hurt, Real

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  Jackie DeShannon

  People, House, Trying

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• Mark Ruffalo, aka the Incredible Hulk, is the natural gas industry's worst nightmare: a serious, committed activist who is determined to use his star power as a superhero in the hottest movie of the moment to draw attention the environmental and public health risks of fracking.

  Jeff Goodell

  Stars, Aka, Worst Nightmares

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• I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

  Lisa Gardner

  Night, Ghost Stories, Staircases

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• I have a sort of waking nightmare: to get this thing just about completed, and the last day to discover one little part that doesn't quite fit with the adjacent part.

  Bill Reid

  Anxiety, Littles, Lasts

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• After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

  Bertrand Russell

  Butterfly, Age, Nero

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.459, Psychology Press

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• In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Beautiful, Real, Records

  Letter to Elizabeth Toldridge (8 March 1929), in "Selected Letters II, 1925-1929" edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, (pp. 316-317), 1968.

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• When man deploys the arbitrary nature of his madness, he confronts the dark necessity of the world; the animal that haunts his nightmares and his nights of privation is his own nature, which will lay bare hell's pitiless truth.

  Michel Foucault

  Dark, Night, Men

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.20, Psychology Press

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• Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

  Harry Chapin

  Country, Prayer, Passion

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

  Anthony Daniels

  Dream, Results, Blueprints

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• Drugs nearly killed my brother when he was a young man and I hate them. He fought back. And I'm really proud of him. But I learned something in going through that long nightmare with our family. And I can tell you, something has happened to some of our young people. They simply don't think these drugs are dangerous anymore. Or they think the risk is acceptable.

  William J. Clinton

  Brother, Hate, Men

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• Playing on turf affects everything, you know, it affects the way the ball rolls, it affects the way the ball bounces, it affects the way you think about whether or not going into a slide. It's kind of a nightmare.

  Abby Wambach

  Thinking, Balls, Way

  Source: www.npr.org

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  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

  Mean, Sobriety, Affair

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• I planted some jokes in my wedding. Like, the organizers asked me to select music. So when I approached wife at the ceremony, they played the second movement from Shostakovich's 10th Symphony, which is usually known as the "portrait of Stalin." And then when we embraced, the music that they played was Schubert's "Death and the Maiden." I enjoyed this in a childish way! But marriage was all a nightmare and so on and so on.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Symphony, Wife, Way

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