Nightmare Before Quotes

#1. 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is my number one biggest influence artistically in every way.

Amy Lee

#2. 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

#3. I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that.

Thomas Sangster

#4. A friend told me 'I guess you gotta go through a lot of nightmares, before you finally, you know, accomplish your dreams.

LeBron James

#5. What lies before me is the hollow husk of a memory turned nightmare, with bleached colors, crumbling structures, and rot corrupting everything it touches. This is the work of Mother Nature gone insane, exacting her revenge and delving deeper into madness in the process.

Ken Lange

#6. Nightmares appear many times before your dream.

J.R. Rim

#7. Bishop, this is a full tithe and a little bit more, because that's the way we have been blessed.

Henry D. Moyle

#8. A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to me that I was coming out of a suffocating nightmare and that the low clouds flying before the wind were the shreds of an evil dream.

Blaise Cendrars

#9. Don't be afraid of mistakes - There are none.

Miles Davis

#10. The French - they like jazz, they've been on jazz a long time.

Billy Higgins

#11. I just stood their frozen, waiting for my opportunity to strike.

Rachel Higginson

#12. We're taught to solely blame our luck-of-the-draw genes for our health issues, rather than our daily habits, dietary choices, and interplay with the environment that surrounds us.

Kris Carr

#13. I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.

John Travolta

#14. A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Jenna Alatari

#15. Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested?

Ron Darling

#16. The apparition of an evil, sick unconscious wild city rose before me in visible semblance, and about the dead buildings in the barren air, the bodies of the soul that built the wonderland shuffled and stalked and stalked and lurched in attitudes of immemorial nightmare all around.

Allen Ginsberg

#17. I don't have an extraordinary degree of self-confidence, but I know the gift I have been given from God, and I try to share it with as many people as possible.

Andrea Bocelli

#18. Better to end this dream before it becomes a nightmare.

Rachel Cohn

#19. I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible.

Gavin Extence

#20. I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

Simone Weil

#21. I've been here before, dreaming myself
backwards, among grappling hooks of light.
True to the seasons, I've lived every word
spoken. Did I walk into someone's nightmare?

Yusef Komunyakaa

#22. The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.

Simon Schama

#23. The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.

Dominique Moceanu

#24. Mayor: How horrible our Christmas will be!
Jack Skellington: *No.*
[the Mayor switches to his upset face]
Jack Skellington: How *jolly*!
Mayor: Oh. How *jolly* our Christmas will be

Tim Burton

#25. The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.

Deyth Banger

#26. A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

Del Howison

#27. Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

Maxine Hong Kingston

#28. I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

Katherine Jenkins

#29. Is it worth the name of freedom to be at liberty to play the fool?

John Locke

#30. I have lain long here in your mind, longer than any nightmare has before me. I have sunk my roots into your worst imaginings and feasted on your memories. I know you, child.

J. Aleksandr Wootton

#31. The things I want from you, darlin', will give you nightmares, ones like you've never had before. A nightmare that will have you begging me not to wake you up."

--Lucca

Sarah Brianne

#32. I had seen other stop-motion animated features, and they were either not engaging or they're just too bizarre. There was one I liked when I was a kid called Mad Monster Party. People thought Nightmare was the first stop-motion animated monster musical, but that was.

Tim Burton

#33. This is how I think of time: the past is Before, and the present is the After. Before was reality; the After, a nightmare.

Demitria Lunetta

#34. No one had told me that you can wake up, years passed, and not understand the person you are, the things you did the night before, the things you said, the things left undone, that it can feel like a nightmare, a wildly seductive, spinning nightmare.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

#35. We should reveal God to this world with our wealth

Sunday Adelaja

#36. [On speaking of family secrets:] I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

Barbara Neely