For too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.
A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
Poor John Simon - what a nightmare, to wake up in the morning and realize that you are John Simon.
Nightmares end. That's how you know they're nightmares.
I like horror movies. Nightmare on Elm Street is my favourite. I even get scared a little bit watching horror.
The worst nightmare would be not to achieve what I know I'm capable of.
I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
The past lies like a nightmare upon the present.
His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket. (Speaking about Ronald Reagan)
I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.
I see the dream and I see the nightmare, and I believe you can't have the dream without the nightmare
Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.
My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.
What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.
I heard how people sounded when their dreams were shattered, when their lives were turned into a waking nightmare.
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.