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When I was filming 'The Haunting Hour', my co-stars Emily Osment, Brittany Curran and I paid a visit to a haunted house - all dressed up as vampires! We really confused the workers. -- Cody Linley
A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism. -- Karl Marx
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H. L. Mencken
Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me. -- Nigel Kneale
I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's. -- William Peter Blatty
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Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it. -- King Hussein I
I love watching scary movies because you always wonder what happens next, and that's what's going to happen on 'The Haunting Hour:' you're always going to want to know what happens next. -- Dakota Goyo
I didn't audition for the part! The role was offered to me, and I was so excited to be a part of 'The Haunting Hour.' It is such a cool show and it was so much fun shooting the 'Intruders.' -- Willow Shields
The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written. -- Alan Lightman
There is something haunting in the light of the moon. -- Joseph Conrad
There is a specter haunting Europe, the specter of Communism. -- Karl Marx
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! -- Robert Browning
If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there. -- Colin Firth
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will. -- William S. Burroughs
As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. -- Nathan Parsons
Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings. -- Loyd Auerbach
Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth. -- Victoria Secunda
If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot. -- John Updike
I started realising that the themes running through all of my novels were really haunting and obsessing me about my own life. -- Dani Shapiro
In the late nineties, Katy Grannan began making haunting photographs of people who had extraordinary inner yens to be seen by strangers. -- Jerry Saltz
To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation. -- Gordon W. Allport
Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America - that we are fixed and certain only when we are in movement. -- Thomas Wolfe
I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place. -- Lucy Walker
Cost is the spectre haunting health reform. For many decades, the great flaw in the American health-care system was its unconscionable gaps in coverage. -- Atul Gawande
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of the living -- John Fante
There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food - the most fundamental expectation of every human being. -- Josette Sheeran
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. -- Joseph Conrad
Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark. -- Jake Epstein
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity. -- Charles Lamb
In Vineyard Haven, on Martha's Vineyard, mostly I love the soft collision here of harbor and shore, the subtly haunting briny quality that all small towns have when they are situated on the sea -- William Styron
Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive. -- E. F. Benson
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy. -- Joyce Carol Oates
There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable. -- Fawn M. Brodie
Herschel Grynszpan's life was enigmatic, elusive and tragic. The traces he left on the historical record are just sufficient to tantalize and baffle historians. Harlan Greene has woven from these threads a riveting novel, erotic, haunting, and profoundly moving. -- Janette Turner Hospital
Shortly after the 2004 Indonesian earthquake, I read that the earthquake had affected the rotation of the earth, shortening the length of our 24-hour day. Even though the change was extremely slight - only a few microseconds - I found the idea incredibly haunting. -- Karen Thompson Walker
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit. -- Neil Gaiman
Australia's arid western region, from the town of Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean coast, is a beautiful, haunting, but largely empty land. Dominated by the harsh, almost uninhabited Great Sandy and Gibson deserts, the region is known only to Australian Aborigines, a handful of white settlers, and the few travelers who motor across it. -- Robyn Davidson
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? -- Regina Spektor
Yet even in the loneliness of the canyon I knew there were others like me who had brothers they did not understand but wanted to help. We are probably those referred to as "our brother's keepers," possessed of one of the oldest and possible one of the most futile and certainly one of the most haunting instincts. It will not let us go. -- Norman Maclean
I knew about 'Haunting Hour' and that it was basically the new 'Goosebumps'. When I got offered the role of Corey, I was really excited because I basically felt like I was going to be in a new generation of 'Goosebumps'. It was a lot of fun, because I just love those scary shows, and I'm such a big fan of the horror genre. -- Dylan Minnette
I often talk with other actors about that time when you've just finished a job, because I think you do take on the characteristics of some of the characters you play. Sometimes it can be a great thing and sometimes it's a bit haunting because you're not quite sure how to leave it on set. My dad talks about it as being 'de-personalised.' -- Ben Barnes
We're all of us haunted and haunting. -- Chuck Palahniuk
What a haunting, inescapable riddle life was. -- Walter de La Mare
Mexicans don't think of ghosts as haunting you. -- Sandra Cisneros
Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls. -- Michael Jackson
You are so vulnerably haunting. Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible. -- Franz Kafka
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. -- H. L. Mencken
Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream. -- John Lindberg
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -- Slavoj Zizek
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -- Slavoj Zizek
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets. -- Laura Miller
A spectre is haunting Western academia (...), the spectre of the Cartesian subject. -- Slavoj Zizek
She had an emptiness in her eyes like a ghost tired of haunting. -- Stuart Jaffe
The leaderâ??s (Jeff Densonâ??s) superb bowing.. showcasing Densonâ??s haunting vocals -- Bill Milkowski
From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. -- William Wordsworth
What is haunting is that people fallen off the train threaten those who remain on board. -- Louise Bernikow
Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I am the Mindfreak, there's no Reality! Just this World of Illusion that keeps on haunting me... -- Criss Angel
Maggie Shipstead takes hold of the reader and doesn't let go. Astonish Me is a haunting, powerful novel. -- Dani Shapiro
A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended. -- Jonathan Maberry
When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination. -- Dezs? Kosztolányi
We fit, you and I," he whispered looking into that haunting gaze. "Two broken pieces making a whole. -- Nalini Singh
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. -- Wade Davis
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. -- Wade Davis
Bad dreams are ghosts of our fears and worries, haunting us while we sleep. I doubt Valek is in trouble. -- Maria V. Snyder
When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love. -- Katy Kauffman
It was bad enough when I thought your ghost was haunting me; I don't think I could handle the real thing. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it. -- Sean Patrick Brennan
The world we suggest is a new wild west. A sensuous evil world. Strange and haunting, the path of the sun"¦ -- Jim Morrison
My father's haunting memories of war had been transformed into my own haunting memories. Such is the power of war and memory. -- Roger Klare
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort. -- Nellie L. McClung
There's nothing more haunting than the cry of a child that cannot be returned with food "? the most fundamental expectation of every human being. -- Josette Sheeran
You see a lot over 30 years and you try to be professional and responsible. A lot of the interviews you do can be very haunting. -- Wolf Blitzer
If you've ever been there, you've never forgotten. The feeling is as haunting and familiar as the smell of a junior high school locker room. -- Frank E. Peretti
In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments. -- Ursula Hegi
Classical pianist Awadagin Pratt. I first heard this eccentric and introverted performer when I was living in the Midwest. He was playing Brahms ballades - haunting. -- Daniel Breaker
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit. -- Wilkie Collins
Silk and Shadows is something else. Like brilliant. It got under my skin as very, very few books have. It's still under my skin. Mikhal was haunting. -- Loretta Chase
No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory. -- Algernon Blackwood
Absorbing and haunting! BOGEYMAN spills creepily across the page with Steve Jackson's hellacious verve and insight, reminding us there are few better explorers of the American berserk. -- Ron Franscell
The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy. -- Philip Yancey
The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music. -- Carrie Brownstein
Julie Orringer is the real thing, a breathtaking chronicler of the secrets and cruelties underneath the surface of middle-class American life. These are terrific stories-wise, compassionate and haunting. -- Dan Chaon
Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting's sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts. -- Elizabeth Bowen
It's great when somebody is able to communicate an actual shot sequence to you and you know the world you're inhabiting with that. It's literally a haunting tune. -- Dan Stevens
The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it. -- Elizabeth Drew
I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things. -- Ryan Buell
A glittering disco ball spins from the ceiling, but the music is something I've never heard, discordant and haunting and insistent, the kind of music that demands you dance. -- Candace Bushnell
It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came. -- Sarah Dessen
'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,' if you go through the lyrics, is such a haunting melody, and the words are, for a pop song, pretty deep and dark. -- Jake Epstein
She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost -- Eleanor Catton
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs. -- Elin Hilderbrand
Below the surface I lie dreaming,haunting images, in all colours and black.Sunlit sometimes there is no sun there.I keep the dream below the surface,the cracked mask absolute. -- Wynand de Beer
With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody. -- Kurt Vonnegut
It was a haunting feeling, the sort of sensation you get when you wonder whether you are two people, the other of which does things you can't explain, bad and terrible things. -- Donald Miller
The Shell The sea fills my ear with sand and with fear. You may wash out the sand, but never the sound of the ghost of the sea that is haunting me. -- Ted Hughes
Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me? -- Waylon Jennings
Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program. -- Scott Yanow
PRIMAL TEARS is a novel of tremendous power. Passionate and erotic, at times tenderly lyrical, it confronts head-on, without flinching, brutal environmental and feminist politics. Its protagonist, Sage, is unique, magical, and haunting. -- Kate Wilhelm
An arresting testimony to the haunting power of friendships, THE AFTER GIRLS is a story that understands what it is to be passionate, confused, and on the brink. I loved every resonant word. -- Micol Ostow
It was the most haunting room I've ever seen. Because you know what's in it? All the leftovers, all the paraphernalia that the different condemned men had had with them in the "holding" cells. -- Truman Capote
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty. -- Evelyn Waugh
To those who believe the dead do not visit them, I say you have cataracts in your soul. I am a man of science, yet I believe in guardian angels and the haunting by ghosts. -- Alyson Richman
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. -- Charles Dickens
Bitterly I wondered if Hardy was going to overshadow every relationship for the rest of my life, haunting me like a ghost. I didn't know how to let him go. I'd never even had him. -- Lisa Kleypas
Fiercely original and uncommonly lovely, The Witch's Boy is equal parts enchanting and haunting. Kelly Barnhill is master of truly potent and unruly magic; luckily for readers, she chooses to use her powers for good. -- Anne Ursu
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless. -- Philip James Bailey

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