Quotes tagged ‘Nightmare’

“I had the most absurd nightmare. I was poor and no one liked me. I lost my job, I lost my house, Penelope hated me, and it was all because of this terrible, awful Negro!”

— Timothy Harris, Herschel Weingrod, Louis Winthorpe III, Dan Aykroyd, imdb.com

“[to her prince] My father's house was a nightmare; your house was a dream. Now I want something in between.”

— James Lapine, Cinderella, Anna Kendrick, imdb.com

“I had another Liam Neeson nightmare. I kidnapped his daughter and he just wasn't having it. [Lies down in bed beside Vanessa] They made three of those movies. At some point you have to wonder if he's just a bad parent.”

— Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Wade Wilson / Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds, imdb.com

“Jack Torrance: The most terrible nightmare I ever had. It's the most horrible dream I ever had. Wendy Torrance: It's OK, it's OK now. Really. Jack Torrance: I dreamed that I, that I killed you and Danny. But I didn't just kill ya. I cut you up in little pieces. Oh my God. I must be losing my mind.”

— Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson, Jack Torrance, Jack Nicholson, imdb.com

“Bruce Wayne: Bad dream. Alfred Pennyworth: Oh. Was I in it? Bruce Wayne: Not this time.”

— Bruno Heller, Ken Woodruff, Bruce Wayne, David Mazouz, imdb.com

“Well, if you are the grandfather of all knowledge, that means it's...I'M IN A NIGHTMARE!!!!”

— Genndy Tartakovsky, Dexter, Christine Cavanaugh, imdb.com

“Does this seem like a nightmare? A bad dream? Because that’s the effect I was going for.”

— Daniel Handler, Count Olaf, Neil Patrick Harris, imdb.com

“My getting killed would be bad enough, but that is not the nightmare scenario. The nightmare scenario, sweetheart, is you getting kidnapped.”

— Aaron Sorkin, Jed Bartlet, Martin Sheen, imdb.com

“I’ll take a nightmare that’s real over a dream that’s a lie.”

— Sarah Nicole Jones, Ray Utarnachitt, Sara Lance / White Canary, Caity Lotz, imdb.com

“A nightmare for some. For others, a savior, I come. My hands, cold and bleak, it’s the warm hearts they seek.”

— Rebecca Perry Cutter, Edward Nygma / The Riddler, Cory Michael Smith, imdb.com

“You know, my whole life and career has been championing the rights of women, gay folk and disenfranchised folk. This administration is a fucking nightmare for us.”

— Kathy Griffin, theguardian.com

“Mr. Sandman, bring me a nightmare.”

— Bruce Zimmerman, David Rossi, Joe Mantegna, imdb.com

“Leave your name, number and nightmare at the tone.”

— Ben Edlund, Dean Winchester, Jensen Ackles, imdb.com

“What’s the difference between love and marriage? Love is one long sweet dream. Marriage is more of a nightmare.”

— Unknown, tcat.tc

“I became terrified of him, for him, of the nightmare which was becoming reality for him, the more so as I could recognize similar thoughts and feelings in myself, even though they were hidden, locked up in my own depths.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“I saw something moving round the foot of the bed, which at first I could not accurately distinguish. But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. It appeared to me about four or five feet long for it measured fully the length of the hearthrug as it passed over it;…”

— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, amazon.com

“Strange, I thought, how you can be living your dreams and your nightmares at the very same time.’”

— Ransom Riggs, amazon.com

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com

“Reality is never as bad as a nightmare as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.”

— Sammy Davis Jr., wattpad.com

“I didn’t want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that’s really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you’re so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com