Top 100 Krueger Quotes
#1. No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.
Lana Parrilla
#2. It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.
Andrew Davidson
#3. On a Creep Scale from Hello Kitty to Cthulhu, I award it a Freddy
Krueger.
Granuaile MacTiernan
Kevin Hearne
#4. Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm,
I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms.
You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine.
Sean Price
#5. What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can't get rid of the guy. He never goes away.
Nick Saban
#6. I was a huge Sub-Zero guy, but the fact that you can download Freddy Krueger is the coolest thing I've heard of in a very long time.
CM Punk
#7. 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
#8. (Butch Thinking) Those claws wre like daggers. they made Freddie Krueger's set of fun and games look like pipe cleaners.
J.R. Ward
#9. I watched all the Saw movies. They were good. But I think Freddie Krueger or Jason might be the best.
Anthony Dirrell
#10. I'm in love with Ariana Grande - she's got a very curious personality; I hear she loves Freddy Krueger, and I love Freddy Krueger, which makes me feel like we'd be perfect for each other.
Ariel Pink
#11. He scares the shit out of me, and I used to work for people who made Freddie Krueger look like Mr. Rogers. (Carlos)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. A few machines dance in the air, an orderly has to be sedated, and suddenly you're Freddy freakin' Krueger.
Jennifer Harlow
#13. I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
Robert Englund
#14. I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.
Wes Craven
#15. If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.
Robert Englund
#16. Scary movies are my favorite. My kids love Hocus Pocus. I'm a big fan of Sleepy Hollow with Johnny Depp and Freddy Krueger.
Andre Dirrell
#17. An invaluable little book ... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism ... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.
Daniel Finkelstein
#19. There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
Carla H. Krueger
#20. You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.
Carla H. Krueger
#23. Behavioral economics tells us that people often focus too much on the wrong things, and tend to focus on aspects of the job that are salient. So, for example, the pay is salient, especially the starting pay.
Alan Krueger
#25. Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.
Carla H. Krueger
#26. At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.
William Kent Krueger
#28. They're never far from us, you know." "Who?" I asked. "The dead. No more'n a breath. You let that last one go and you're with them again.
William Kent Krueger
#29. Haven't you seen that part of me as well? A man's many things. To isolate one part of him and judge him on that alone is to do him an injustice, don't you think?
William Kent Krueger
#32. When I write, it feels like there are two little creatures that sit on each of my shoulders. One whispers, "You can do this. You've got what it takes." The other sounds like my mother-in-law.
Carla H. Krueger
#33. People who don't read fiction are scared of what's inside their own heads.
Carla H. Krueger
#34. I watched the storm as I might have watched the approach and passing of a fierce and beautiful animal. The
William Kent Krueger
#35. I lose it when I can't write. I feel sad and confused and fucked off.
Carla H. Krueger
#36. There are some great, subversive female writers out there. Gender should not affect anything. It does, but it shouldn't.
Carla H. Krueger
#38. When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
Carla H. Krueger
#42. Although I'd had no trouble looking at the casket the day before, on that Saturday I did my best to keep my eyes averted. I stared instead at the stained-glass window behind the altar and imagined shooting the panes out with a slingshot.
William Kent Krueger
#45. That was it. That was all of it. A grace so ordinary there was no reason at all to remember it. Yet I have never across the forty years since it was spoken forgotten a single word.
William Kent Krueger
#46. I'm proud to be a writer. I'm doing the job all my heroes did.
Carla H. Krueger
#47. When people say, 'you're so young to be a writer,' I always reply, 'I started young because I've got a lot to write.
Carla H. Krueger
#48. I think that whether we acknowledge it or not, our opinions as authors always influence our work. How can they not?
William Kent Krueger
#50. Time is not an enemy as such, but a missing person, sending cryptic postcards from the past.
Carla H. Krueger
#51. Creativity is as much about order against freedom; control versus rebellion; organisation against disorder as it is about straightforward imagination.
Carla H. Krueger
#52. All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
Carla H. Krueger
#53. We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.
Jim Krueger
#55. I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed. Take
William Kent Krueger
#56. Few things were so sure and simple that they could be taken at face value.
William Kent Krueger
#58. Write because you love the work, not because of what might come from it. The journey is the purpose. Very Zen-like, I know, but honest to God it's the truth. And I have never had to deal with writer's block. Knock on wood.
William Kent Krueger
#59. Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.
Carla H. Krueger
#60. Our constant desire to genre-label cripples new writers. Let them experiment, explore and surprise.
Carla H. Krueger
#61. If it was true, as Henry Meloux said, that he'd heard the Windigo call his name, he understood why now. Because it felt exactly as if his heart had just been torn out of him and devoured.
William Kent Krueger
#62. I generally played a little fast and loose with my resources but I figured hell, a man's reach should exceed his grasp, especially in a stupid board game.
William Kent Krueger
#63. So much of what we read nowadays is there one moment and gone the next. When you read something good, cherish it.
Carla H. Krueger
#64. It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
Carla H. Krueger
#65. Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
William Kent Krueger
#67. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
William Kent Krueger
#68. I've always thought that the best moments can come from the worst times.
Carla H. Krueger
#70. You stuff your own closet full of skeletons and you wonder what kind of bones everyone else has stuffed away.
William Kent Krueger
#71. What is happiness, Nathan? In my experience, it's only a moment's pause here and there on what is otherwise a long and difficult road. No one can be happy all the time. Better, I think, to wish for her wisdom, a virtue not so fickle.
William Kent Krueger
#72. There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.
Carla H. Krueger
#73. Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.
Carla H. Krueger
#74. Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.
Charlie Krueger
#75. Someone once said writing and gardening are similar pursuits. Tell you what, I'd have one fucked up garden if that were the case.
Carla H. Krueger
#76. He was no stranger to brutal death. Both as sheriff and as a cop on Chicago's south side, he'd seen his share of dying. Murder, accident, overdose - it happened in many ways, but the end was the same. Something sad and confusing left behind. Only the shape of life, only the empty outline.
William Kent Krueger
#77. Somebody tells you they drink because they're a failure, it ain't so. They're a failure because they drink. And they drink because it's so damn hard not to. But as long as they have a bottle that isn't empty, they never feel far from being happy.
("Bums")
William Kent Krueger
#79. My mother heated Campbell's tomato soup and made grilled cheese sandwiches with Velveeta and we ate dinner and afterward watched Have Gun - Will Travel.
William Kent Krueger
#80. When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer.
Carla H. Krueger
#82. I've come to understand that there's a good deal of value in the ritual accompanying death. It's hard to say good- bye and almost impossible to accomplish this alone and ritual is the railing we hold to, all of us together, that keeps us upright and connected until the worst is past.
William Kent Krueger
#83. People who love reading get an instantly warm feeling in their bellies when they hear others describe getting comfortable with a good book.
Carla H. Krueger
#85. Loss, once it's become a certainty, is like a rock you hold in your hand. It has weight and dimension and texture. It's solid and can be assessed and dealt with. You can use it to beat yourself or you can throw it away.
William Kent Krueger
#86. And what I know from my studies and from my life is that there is no such thing as a true event. We know dates and times and locations and participants but accounts of what happened depend upon the perspective from which the event is viewed.
William Kent Krueger
#88. I need some-" Cork thought a moment. "I was going to say advice, but the truth is, I need some guidance, Tom."
"We all do sometimes. It's not always easy to admit.
William Kent Krueger
#89. Straight is my path. Straight is my mind. Straight is my heart. Straight is my speech. Kind will I be to my brothers and sisters. Kind will I be to beast and bird.
William Kent Krueger
#90. She was not alone in her respect for him. Because he is more than a boss to people. He's a religion for non-believers.
Carla H. Krueger
#91. Me, I was growing up scrambling for meaning and I was full of confusion and fear.
William Kent Krueger
#92. When you're a writer, you're always looking for conflict. It's conflict that drives great stories.
William Kent Krueger
#95. Day after day, week after week; writing great fiction takes time, emotion, skill and effort.
Carla H. Krueger
#96. I'll tell you what I think defines greatness. The ability and willingness to perform in extraordinary ways.
William Kent Krueger
#98. Lyrics paved my teenage route to loving words. I take those passionate mini-stories with me everywhere.
Carla H. Krueger
#100. Grief doesn't come in the moment of loss. It comes in the quiet of the aftermath.
William Kent Krueger
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