Halloween Quotes - Page 9

• It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

  Holly Black

  Swimming, Thinking, Voice

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Right. Because there’s no bigger sign of commitment than a Halloween dance

  Richelle Mead

  Commitment, Bigger

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.95, Penguin

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• You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

  David Carson

  August, Gold Teeth, Ornaments

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• Mr. Crossley suddenly wondered why he was why he was worrying about the note. It was only a joke, after all. He cleared his throat. Everyone looked up hopefully. 'Somebody,' said Mr. Crossley, 'seems to have sent me a Halloween message.' And he read out the note: 'SOMEONE IN THIS CLASS IS A WITCH.' 6B thought this was splendid news. Hands shot up all over the room like a bed of beansprouts. 'It's me, Mr. Crossley!' 'Mr. Crossley, I'm the witch!' 'Can I be the witch, Mr. Crossley?' 'Me, Mr. Crossley, me, me, me!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Hands, Class, Worry

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• I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

  Ron Carter

  Music, Responsibility, Sound

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• 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

  Mother, Dog, Moon

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!

  Elizabeth Chase Allen

  Time, Children, Night

  "Rock Me to Sleep" l. 1 (1860)

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• ...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

  Silly, Mean, Black

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Talk, Talk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-Ups”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

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• It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Cute, Circles, Focus

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.170, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Take pains. Be perfect.

  William Shakespeare

  Pain, Perfect

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Weller Singer, William Watkiss Lloyd, John Thompson, Thomas Stothard (1856). “Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer-night's dream. Merchant of Venice”, p.350

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• 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

  Uncles, Home, Men

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• I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.

  Joss Whedon

  Names, Vampire, Wish

  "Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fear Itself)". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1997–2003.

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• The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Moon, Night

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

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• I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Stars, Makeup, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Jenny McCarthy from Mar 19, 2012

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• 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

  Teenager, Kids, Night

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• Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the theater and was sitting there with a group of friends in the front row, and I turned back to look at the audience. They were screaming and interacting with the screen and were interacting with Jamie Lee Curtis as she walked through that horrible night. I just thought, "I want to do that."

  Kevin D. Williamson

  Children, Night, Scary

  Source: collider.com

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• Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5 billion pieces of candy.

  Jay Leno

  Kids, Years, Three

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• My favorite Halloween candy is the candy corn. It comes in four colors: white, yellow, orange, brown. Those are also the stages of your teeth rotting after you eat it.

  Jay Leno

  Color White, Yellow, Orange

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• I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dog, Thinking, Talking

  "The Gum Thief". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2011.

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• Maybe we'll go trick-or-treating for Halloween, and I'll go as Pia Zadora.

  Pia Zadora

  Tricks

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• Michael made his debut in John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic, Halloween, possibly the best scare movie to come along in the last twenty-five years. With the release of the sixth (and hopefully final) movie to bear the Halloween moniker, we see how far the mighty have fallen. In the final analysis, The Curse of Michael Myers is a horrific motion picture just not in the way the film makers intended.

  James Berardinelli

  Years, Scare, Twenties

  "Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers". Movie Review, www.reelviews.net. 1995.

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• Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

  Tobin Bell

  Fun, Holiday, Thinking

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• 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

  Christian, Valentine, People

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• I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

  Mary Roach

  Nice, Men, Thinking

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• There were days when no kid came out of his house without looking around. The week after Halloween had a quality both hungover and ominous, the light pitched, the sky smashed against the rooftops.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Kids, Light, Sky

  Jonathan Lethem (2004). “The Fortress of Solitude”, p.46, Vintage

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