Nightmares Quotes

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

My dreams are of water. And my nightmares.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.

I still have nightmares about taking tests.

But when I was doing the KKK I had constant nightmares of being exposed as a Jew and lynched by the Klan.

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?

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don't worry it's not the end of the world.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams.

There is an excitement about having nightmares.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

I used to have nightmares about the Antichrist - what would happen, where it would come from, and who it would be.

I have a lot of nightmares.

I think my character's getting to the point where he can't even eat spaghetti with red sauce anymore, where he has horrible nightmares, he can't sleep anymore.

Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress.

Ninety percent of people's nightmares is standing in front of 1,000 people. Did you know that? And having to speak. You would have thought it would have been a madman tying you up and taking your eyes out.

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

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.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.

My nightmare of nightmares is being overdressed for a casual event - I've done it! You have to have a real sense of what you want to communicate.

Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.