Horror Quotes

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
John Podhoretz

Last, Memories, Grief

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.
Robert Bly

Love, Beginning, Emptiness

You can't make people believe in you if you play a horror part with your tongue in your cheek.
Bela Lugosi

Play, Tongue, Cheek

When my son was born, and after a day of lying-in I was told that I could leave the hospital and take him home, I burst into tears. It wasn't the emotion of the moment: it was shock and horror.
Susan Orlean

Home, Him, After

The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
Morris Dees

Education, Equality, Children

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.
John Podhoretz

History, Him, American

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Life, Pain, Human

That's also why comedy and horror are my two favorite genres of film to write, because you get these outbursts of emotion from people, laughter and shock, and it's really thrilling, and I like to be thrilled.
Diablo Cody

Laughter, Two, Why

I have a horror of not rising above mediocrity.
Robert Baldwin

Mediocrity, Above, Rising

I like 'Rocky Horror.'
Adam Lambert

Horror is the natural reaction to the last 5,000 years of history.
Robert Anton Wilson

History, Last, Natural

Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.
Eliot Spitzer

Death, Control, Gun

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty

Rather, Read, Story

Comedy and horror are cousins; they're related. They both come from storytellers who want to specifically affect the audience and elicit specific reactions during the movie.
Jason Reitman

Comedy, Both, Movie

Blood is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood... there are many things more horrible than bloodshed, and slavery is one of them!
Padraic Pearse

Lost, Nation, Blood

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.
Norman Mailer

Century, Event, Size

The reason bin Laden staggered the planes going into the towers was so every camera would be focused on the second tower when the plane hit. It was not only the murder, but the perpetual image of the horror that permeated into people's consciousness.
John Cusack

Reason, Second, Hit

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.
Tom Sizemore

Alone, Movies, Why

I'm not a great one for classic horror or cheap thrills.
Clive Owen

Great, Cheap, Classic

I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
Carter Burwell

Romantic, Done, Comedy

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.
James Wolcott

Love, Nothing, Black

I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Carly Rae Jepsen

Before, Kiss, Stories

I love horror, I love scary movies, I love thrillers. If things creep you out and spook you? I love it.
Lana Parrilla

Love, Movies, Scary

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
Dean Koontz

Said, Times, Writer

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
Vanessa Hudgens

Two, After, Big

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
William Styron

Experience, Pain, Depression

When I think of 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' there was a warmth to those teenagers that I related to. They were not aware that they were in the middle of a horror film, and I really loved those characters and I empathized with them.
Jason Reitman

Loved, Film, Street

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.
Jason Reitman

Work, Bad, Laugh

It's funny, I can sit through the worst horror film ever made but even a quite good romantic comedy can drive me nuts.
Jason Reitman

Funny, Good, Romantic

When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people receive what I do as small, personal films that are somewhat contrarian about their main characters.
Jason Reitman

Hope, Small, Young

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