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I'm every bourgeois nightmare - a Cockney with intelligence and a million dollars. -- Michael Caine
Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose. -- Charles Baudelaire
We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare. -- Louie Gohmert
Coal is My Worst Nightmare. -- Steven Chu
Sleepwalking?" "Nightmare?" "Homicidal psycho jungle cat! -- Bill Watterson
Could Artificial Intelligence End the Electronic Medical Record Nightmare? -- Kevin R. Stone
I'm not the American Nightmare. I am the American Dream! -- Donald Freed
People spend the money where the money is. Nightmare never goes away. -- Henry Selick
'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way. -- Amy Lee
The Nightmare Before Christmas is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way. -- Amy Lee
I do remember reading the script of 'The Nightmare Fair' and looking forward to doing it. -- Colin Baker
Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music. -- Aleksey Igudesman
I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks. -- Robert Englund
Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music. -- Aleksey Igudesman
If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light -- Tobe Hooper
If one sees the American Nightmare first and Chainsaw after that, you'll see it in a different kind of light. -- Tobe Hooper
I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror. -- Mike Tyson
The idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting. -- Danny Elfman
Nightmare on Elm Street' really lends itself to using new technologies. CGI would be a great way to exploit and embrace the dream sequences. -- Robert Englund
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.' -- Aleksey Igudesman
There's something about seeing this little inanimate object coming to life that's just very exciting. That's why with 'Nightmare' I held out for so long to do it. -- Tim Burton
Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
As a kid, I liked the 'Halloween' movies and 'Nightmare On Elm Street' and all that kind of stuff. But as an adult, I really don't watch much horror, to be honest. -- Corey Feldman
Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep. -- Wes Craven
One name always stands out when it comes to actors taking on the monsters of our nightmares - Robert Englund. In the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' series, Englund kept us awake as night with a striped shirt and his special glove. -- Rob Manuel
Even sleep offered no respite from my mental disorders. There was Nightmare Disorder, which is diagnosed when the sufferer dreams of being "pursued or declared a failure." All my nightmares involve someone chasing me down the street while yelling, "You're a failure! -- Jon Ronson
I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it. -- Robert Englund
As an actor, whatever I get the opportunity to do, if it has a good story then I'm in. I thought 'Dead End' had a great story; 'Nightmare on Elm Street,' of course, was probably the first real horror film I was in. -- Lin Shaye
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
Robert Englund's done an amazing job over the years playing Freddy. Everybody that's a fan of 'Nightmare' loves Robert and you know so that's a challenge when you've got to step in a big man's shoes like that, so it's scary but it's also exciting. -- Jackie Earle Haley
The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done. -- Aleksey Igudesman
My earliest memories of horror are 'Friday the 13th Part 2,' John Carpenter's 'The Thing,' 'Halloween,' 'An American Werewolf in London,' and 'A Nightmare On Elm Street'... and 'Hatchet' is so obviously inspired by those films that I may as well have made it in 1984. -- Adam Green
Packing is always a nightmare. -- Stefanie Powers
The fairytale has turned into a nightmare. -- Ian Thorpe
Darling I'm a nightmare dressed like a daydream. -- Taylor Swift
I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare. -- Ric Flair
The nightmare always becomes laughter, once it's understood. -- Byron Katie
For many, the American dream has become a nightmare. -- Bernie Sanders
My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. -- Gerald R. Ford
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. -- James Joyce
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare. -- Charles Bukowski
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. -- Alfred Hitchcock
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. -- Eminem
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it. -- Alan Rickman
I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams. -- Jonas Salk
The schizophrenic mind is not so much split as shattered. I like to say schizophrenia is like a waking nightmare. -- Elyn Saks
I hate being the heartbreaker. Hate it. If I date somebody and it doesn't work out, it's another nightmare for me. -- John Mayer
College is the reward for surviving high school. Most people have great fun stories from college and nightmare stories from high school. -- Judd Apatow
Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team. -- John C. Maxwell
If you don't play well, you have a bad game or a nightmare you know that the amount of coverage is worldwide. -- Steven Gerrard
I have fallen into an abyss. I live in a world so curious, so strange. Of the dream that was my life, this is my nightmare. -- Camille Claudel
I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made. -- Ian MacKaye
It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare. -- Cara Delevingne
Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage. -- Morris West
I can't even explain to you how terrible that feels, that I equate dating a woman with punishment, shame, guilt, disappointment, reproach, reprimand, persecution. It's a nightmare. -- John Mayer
I feel that I am a citizen of the American dream and that the revolutionary struggle of which I am a part is a struggle against the American nightmare. -- Eldridge Cleaver
Nothing terrible has ever happened except in our thinking. Reality is always good, even in situations that seem like nightmares. The story we tell is the only nightmare that we have lived. -- Byron Katie
A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare. -- Mahmoud Darwish
In our increasingly secular society, with so many disparate gods and different faiths, superhero films present a unique canvas upon which our shared hopes, dreams and apocalyptic nightmares can be projected and played out. -- Tom Hiddleston
So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the ones that hide just beyond the doorway that separates the conscious from the unconscious. -- Stephen King
My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand. -- Barbra Streisand
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now? -- John Lennon
I was 14 when I started modeling. At the end of that first day my mum said, If you want to do this, you're on your own because I'm not traipsing around London ever again like that. It's a nightmare. -- Kate Moss
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting. -- Ellie Goulding
These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them. -- Mortimer Zuckerman
The meat industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals -- Chrissie Hynde
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well! -- Patricia Polacco
Each time I'm starting to work on a film, even if I love to settle the plot in the real world, I start to think about the plot as a fairy tale, or a dream, or a nightmare... As if it was the best way to tell the truth about characters or narration, instead of realism. -- Arnaud Desplechin
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. -- Louis C. K.
I spoke so much about being a manic-depressive. I want to bring everyone back to my earliest memories of this companion of mine. Some people call this companion I have an ailment, or worse a terrible nightmare from which some people cannot awaken. I know that I have nothing to be ashamed of. I have nothing that should garner a stigma. -- Richard Dreyfuss
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses' station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn't give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication. -- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter. -- Hunter S. Thompson
Consciousness is nature's nightmare. -- Emile M. Cioran
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Stand-up would be my worst nightmare. -- Steven Pasquale
My best vacation is your worst nightmare. -- Jim Bridwell
The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up. -- Michael S. Harper
Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form. -- Ilona Andrews
My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare. -- Voltaire
Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality! -- Clive Barker
Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare. -- Scott Westerfeld
Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare. -- Donald Trump
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare. -- Gail Caldwell
Become my friend and you embrace a nightmare. -- Juliet Marillier
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare. -- Alain de Botton
A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick. -- Toni Morrison
Dear God, let this be just a bad nightmare. -- Roy Horn
Don't stop dreaming just because you had a nightmare. -- Jill Scott
The loss of a child is my greatest nightmare. -- Angelina Jolie
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present. -- Karl Marx
Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare. -- Sabaa Tahir
There's no nightmare you can't wake yourself up from. -- Byron Katie
Getting married was a ball. Being married was... a nightmare. -- Kid Rock
History is that nightmare from which there is no awakening. -- James Joyce
Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare. -- Rachel Cohn
A nightmare is a big dream....with a bad team. -- John C. Maxwell
We're here to tell the NRA their nightmare is true... -- Charles Schumer
Never let your dreams to be a nightmare for others! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
I have a dream! Because I have lived a nightmare. -- Christopher Titus
Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins
I don't want to disappoint - that's a nightmare to me. -- Nas
It's a nightmare of editing. That's what I do all day. -- Billy Lawrence
That's a true actor's nightmare: "Improvise in British sign language. Go." -- Hank Azaria
If you lost the love of your life, that's a nightmare. -- Quentin Dupieux
Just because you have a nightmare doesn't mean you stop dreaming. -- Jill Scott
My worst nightmare is being stuck somewhere with nothing to read. -- Barbara Kingsolver
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. -- Jack Kerouac
I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States. -- Evo Morales
A dream business that doesn't make money is a living nightmare. -- Habeeb Akande
Art is form struggling to wake from the nightmare of nature. -- Camille
I tried water polo and my horse drownedthat was a nightmare. -- Lee Evans
Welcome to my nightmare, I think your going to like it. -- Alice Cooper
best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare. -- Charles Bukowski
Her nightmare clung to her like the smell of smoke to cloth. -- Shannon Hale
The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid. -- Bryant H. McGill
People say I'm America's worst nightmare. I say I'm the American dream. -- Latrell Sprewell
Yeah, yeah, yeah, time travel's a nightmare. Don't go down that path. -- Domhnall Gleeson
Innocence eroded into nightmare. All because of very bad touch. Love, corrupted. -- Ellen Hopkins

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