Ghost Quotes - Page 21

• I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

  Joanne Harris

  Believe, Thinking, Afterlife

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• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  Barry Hannah

  Country, Writing, Motorcycle

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• There was something about the Cleveland Play House that was the holiest place - you know, with the ghost light on the stage and the brick. It was just the most beautiful theater in the world.

  Kathryn Hahn

  Beautiful, Light, Play

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• I don't think I believe in ghosts, per se. But, my nearest experience was when I went on a weekend away and was in a bar in England, years ago, with an ex-girlfriend. I heard this scratching. I was about to go to bed and I was thinking, 'It's an old ghost.' I could hear this noise, but I couldn't work out where it was coming from.

  Theo James

  Girlfriend, Believe, Weekend

  "Theo James Talks BEDLAM and UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING". Interview, collider.com. September 30, 2011.

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• In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.

  Tabitha King

  Believe, Past, Literature

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• Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.

  Gary Kemp

  Lying, Reading, May

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• People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Thinking, Play, People

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• After I watched 'The Exorcist' I refused to watch any other movie that had anything to do with ghosts or demons. I didn't even watch 'Ghostbusters' until I was much older.

  Oren Peli

  Watches, Demon, Exorcist

  "'Paranormal activity' director Oren Peli on what scares him during Halloween" by Adam Rosenberg, www.mtv.com. October 26, 2009.

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• I don't necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I've never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, 'Hey, how's it going?

  Sara Paxton

  Believe, Hey

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• Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

  Jessica Szohr

  Ghost Stories, Interesting, Watches

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

  R. L. Stine

  Real, Book, Ideas

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

  Rachael Taylor

  Awards, Afterlife, Office

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• I wish ghosts were real!

  Holly Madison

  Real, Wish

  "11 Questions With Holly Madison". Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I believe in spirits, not ghosts.

  Kendra Wilkinson

  Believe, Spirit, I Believe

  Interview with Jennifer Cox, www.askmen.com.

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• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Suffering, Tears

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

  Dick Cavett

  Miserable, Forlorn, Said

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Does one ever see any ghost that is not oneself?

  Marjorie Bowen

  Doe, Oneself

  Marjorie Bowen (1948). “Mignonette: A Novel”

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• A carnival in daylight is an unfinished beast, anyway. Rain makes it a ghost. The wheezing music from the empty, motionless rides in a soggy, rained-out afternoon midway always hit my chest with a sweet ache. The colored dance of lights in the seeping air flashed the puddles in the sawdust with an oily glamour.

  Katherine Dunn

  Sweet, Rain, Light

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Oct 18, 2012

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• When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying.

  Boaz Lavie

  Thinking, Zombie, Dying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Any work that is not rooted in myth and poetry or that does not partake of the depth and essence of the universe is merely a ghost.

  Hans Arp

  Essence, Depth, Doe

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• There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it.

  Charles Dickens

  Winter, Smell, Ghost Stories

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.11

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• Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Change, Cells, Reason

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 62, 2006.

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• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, War, Moon

  Philip James Bailey (1860). “Festus: A Poem”, p.466

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• There is a ghost That eats hankerchiefs; It keeps you company On all your travels.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Travel, Company

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• My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.

  Amy Tan

  Mother, Teaching

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