In supernatural horror stories, however, magical thinking is a completely different matter. Those characters contending with what seems to be the work of magic will deny till the very last moment that anything magical is going on. They will invoke re...
'My problem was comparatively simple,' Marcus said. 'One kiss was enough to solve it. But that doesn't mean one kiss is enough to wake everyone up and end every nightmare. [...] That's okay,' Marcus whispered to him. 'One kiss doesn't need to be enou...
Santa: [singing] Release me now or you'll have to face the dire consequences. / The children are expecting me, so please come to your senses. Oogie Boogie Man: [singing] You're jokin', you're jokin'! / I can't believe my ears! / Would someone shut th...
Tina Gray: All day long I've been seeing that guy's weird face and hearing those fingernails. Nancy: Fingernails? That's amazing you saying that. That made me remember the dream I had last night. Tina Gray: What'd you dream? Nancy: I dreamed about a ...
Nancy: I know you're there Freddy. Freddy Krueger: You think you was gonna get away from me? Nancy: I know you too well, Freddy. Freddy Krueger: Now you die. Nancy: It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You're not alive...
Nancy: [to her father] The killer's still loose, ya know. Donald: You're saying somebody else killed Tina? Who? Nancy: I don't know who he is, but he's burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses these knive...
Brigadier General Gavin: What's the best way to take a bridge? Maj. Julian Cook: Both ends at once. Brigadier General Gavin: I'm sending two companies across the river by boat. I need a man with very special qualities to lead. Maj. Julian Cook: Go on...
I'm suddenly finding it hard to know the difference between nightmares and consciousness.
You and I were meant to be together, even if we weren't meant to be happy.
I think I killed a girl who looked like this once.
Love is the most beautiful of dreams and the worst of nightmares.
The most poetical thing in the world is not being sick.
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
I saw 'Wild,' and I thought, 'Wow, this is a lot of things, but one of the things is it's a therapist's dream and a climate-change denier's nightmare.'
Dreamers must dream on as long as the nightmare wakes them up to greet with a bucketful of reality
I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.
I had this terrible nightmare; I dreamt I was a politician and they were dragging me off to parliament
From one small lie her dream had transformed into a hideous nightmare
I've never been a big horror genre fan, but I did go see 'Nightmare on Elm Street' in the theaters and I dug it. I thought it was cool.
Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.
