Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Durst

In San Francisco, Halloween is redundant.

Samuel P. Huntington

Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods.

Rudy Rucker

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

William Cowper

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

Ursula K. Le Guin

I use a whole lot of half-assed semicolons; there was one of them just now; that was a semicolon after 'semicolons,' and another one after 'now.

Twiggy

Want to continue to try and break the barrier between male and female. If you want to do that, that's fine. At our shows, it's like a Halloween party, which isn't a bad thing. I'd like to see more of it actually.

Walt Disney

The same thing could have happened on Halloween if somebody in the neighborhood had jumped out and scared him.

Rosecrans Baldwin

And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.

Sasha Grey

When it comes to romance, I'm really simple. I am really a 'dinner and a movie' type of person, and I love food, so surprise me and order something different or adventurous when it comes to food, and I'm like a kid at Halloween.

William Davis

If you have 15 minutes per visit, and you spend the first 9 minutes just collecting information from them, before you do anything else, you know half of your visit is gone already. So if you have an automated system that has most of that and, and in some cases I actually have patients complete questionnaires before they come in, so I'd gotten most of the information I need to ask about, already recorded, instead of having 9 minutes I can take 3 minutes to review all this information.

Wyclef Jean

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

William Osler

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

Yehudi Menuhin

The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency---half tiger,half poet.

Robert Asprin

I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.

River Phoenix

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Richard Cobden

But it is my happiness to be half Welsh, and that the better half.

Tucker Max

Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

Roy Orbison

A candy coloured clown they call the sandman Tiptoes into my room every night Just to sprinkle stardust and whisper; "Go to sleep, everything is alright"

Rumi

Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.

Rumi

Half-heartedne ss doesn't reach into majesty.

Rumi

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

Tom Robbins

Conservatives understand Halloween, liberals only understand Christmas. If you want to control a population, don't give it social services, give it a scary adversary.

Tom Robbins

Any half-awake materialist well knows - that which you hold holds you.

Ron Kuby

Rudy has always been a scary character, so there's a place for him on Halloween.

Roger Bacon

Half of science is asking the right questions.

Roger Corman

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

Rush Limbaugh

George W. Bush attended the intelligence briefing every day. Obama has not even attended half of them. He sends surrogates. That to me is significant.