At the movies, we are gradually being conditioned to accept violence as a sensual pleasure. The directors used to say they were… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of horrors. I love the ones that make you jump. My girlfriend hates it. I've been dating her for… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, poets pass by without having the time… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Steven Spielberg's name was all over 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' was out the same year, which every single parent took their child to.… — Pedro Pascal Copy Share Image
“William sees it all happen again. The pain is not in the event. The subjection to it and his powerless state each… — M.R. Gott Copy Share Image
We've become so postmodern as an audience and we're so familiar with the style of horror movies that they all kind of… — Ti West Copy Share Image
There's nothing scarier than silence. A lot of horror movies lean on hits and score to try and create tension, which actually… — Mike Flanagan Copy Share Image
“My power grew angry that it was confined to my petite frame and pulled against my taut skin. Growing bolder, it tore… — J.D. Stroube Copy Share Image
Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“The marine underworld stretched below the ship and embodied many secrets. The disappearance of Olga had become one of the mysteries that… — Tiffany Apan Copy Share Image
When 'The Walking Dead' has been its best, all that stuff is happening at once: the emotion, action, horror, scares. I'm very… — Scott M. Gimple Copy Share Image
Born to an age where horror has become commonplace, where tragedy has, by its monotonous repetition, become a parody of sorrow, we… — Thomas Boswell Copy Share Image
“I suppose the best way to tell the story is simply to narrate it, without an effort to carry belief. The thing… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
Sometimes I have little movies that I've made that I wish would be seen by a larger audience. I have a horror… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [...] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“I stared down at my hands and saw the blood coat them, how warm and real something felt when it wasn’t just… — Charlotte Munro Copy Share Image
“Far away on the path we saw Sir Henry looking back, his face white in the moonlight, his hands raised in horror,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction… In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There was one woman who had a giant sign and on it, it just said, 'America Is Better Than Abortion.' I think… — Eugene Mirman Copy Share Image
The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“In any event, whether a supernatural tale remains altogether fantastic or eventually modulates to the uncanny or the marvelous, the reader is… — Howard Kerr Copy Share Image
People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound.… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
“It’s horrible," she said. He looked at her in surprise. Horrible? Wasn’t that odd? He hadn’t thought that for years. For him… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“People who love horror films are people with boring lives... when a really scary movie is over, you're reassured to see that… — Ryu Murakami Copy Share Image
To all the survivors out there, I want them to know that we are stronger and more resilient than we ever knew.… — Loung Ung Copy Share Image
And I like a good horror story as much as the next person so long as they kill off some men too… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Doista, neka samo procuri prva rakija, netko će se već, obično kod neke ruševine obrasle kupinom, na pustom križanju, u ponoć, pod… — Ante Tomić Građanin pokorni Copy Share Image
I remember when I went to a gallery in Paris at one point, they had drawings of earthworks set in different places.… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
“She suddenly felt herself gasping for air, as if she’d momentarily forgotten how to breathe. She rocked back in her chair and… — Joe DeRouen Copy Share Image
“Time snapped and Hagerty found himself speeding toward the woman in the straitjacket. Grabbing her by the shoulders, he pulled her off… — Nancy A. Collins Copy Share Image
I realized that for many people attending a reading is like watching television at the end of a long day. They don't… — Chinelo Okparanta Copy Share Image
“In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
“Potkraj Drugoga svjetskog rata izvukli su me iz škole i, kao šesnaestogodišnjaka, gurnuli u vojsku. Nakon kratke vojničke izobrazbe u würzburškim kasarnama… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
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