Ghost Quotes - Page 35

• Many other means there be, that promise the foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out in our days, to be no better than vanities and false illusions.

  Pliny the Elder

  Mean, Vanity, Departed

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1964). “The History of the World: Commonly Called The Natural History of C. Plinius Secundus, Or Pliny”

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• I always liked it when people go back in time to discover things about themselves, like with 'A Christmas Carol' and you're getting a tour of your life by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future.

  John Cusack

  Past, People, Christmas Carol

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• If you deny mystery-even in the guise of death-then you deny life, and you will walk like a ghost through your days, never knowing the secrets of the extremes. The deep sorrows, the absolute joys.

  Lucius Shepard

  Knowing, Joy, Secret

  Lucius Shepard (1987). “The Jaguar Hunter”, Arkham House Pub

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• As a child, I was a brat, and my parents didn't know how to control me. So they told me ghost stories, which stayed with me. I am still petrified of darkness and being alone.

  Bipasha Basu

  Children, Ghost Stories, Parent

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• Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

  Immanuel Kant

  Ghost Stories, Ignorant, World

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• I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood.

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Kids, Childhood

  "California dreaming" by Anita Sethi, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2008.

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• American Conservatism is finished, and its remaining adherents are, whether they know it or not, merely ghosts wandering, mazed, in the daylight.

  Revilo P. Oliver

  Daylight, Wander, Conservatism

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• Remember thee!
  Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat
  In this distracted globe.

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Remember, Poor

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. 95

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• My house used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs.

  Phyllis Diller

  Night, House, Wigs

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

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• Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.

  John Updike

  Men, Light, Overcoming

  John Updike (1990). “Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy”, Everyman's Library

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• Every comedian has a moment in his life when he realizes he's a little bit different from everyone else. It's like being the only guy in a movie who sees the ghost. The ghost talks to you and you talk to him. Then you turn to your friend and say, "Hey. Do you see that ghost? And he says, What ghost?"

  Chris Rock

  Guy, Comedian, Different

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I took my AlDS test. You start reflecting... You start thinking about every nasty, skank-ass... It's like the movie Scrooge, and the Ghost of Pussy Past comes.

  Chris Rock

  Thinking, Past, Pussy

  "Chris Rock: Bigger & Blacker". TV Special, July 10, 1999.

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• This is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies and no deceptions. One can detect here, elevated to an incomparably higher level, the same pathetic emotional appeal that lies concealed in every fake spiritualist photograph, every pornographic photograph; one comes to suspect that the strange, disturbing emotional appeal of the photographic art consists solely in that same repeated refrain: this is a true ghost... this is a photograph, so it is as you see: there are no lies, no deceptions.

  Yukio Mishima

  Art, Lying, Emotional

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• I've never made love to a ghost but I have made love to men who are a few years away from becoming a ghost.

  Chelsea Handler

  Men, Years, Becoming

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• With supernatural things, I have heard ghosts, but I've never seen ghosts. I do seek ghosts and I would love to see one, but I would crap my pants.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Pants, Heard, Crap

  Source: collider.com

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• What's that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I'll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.

  Bo Burnham

  Song, Kings, Pirate

  Song: I'm Bo Yo

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• My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.

  Justin Trudeau

  Running, Country, Father

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

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• I like any big city. I like any place where you can see a guy with a pants-full of pooh fighting a ghost.

  Brian Posehn

  Fighting, Cities, Guy

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• Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally?

  Dana Gould

  Two, Ku Klux Klan, People

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• Classified ads of the Ku Klux Klan: Tired of all the games? Do you like racial purity, horses and dressing up like a ghost?

  Dana Gould

  Horse, Tired, Games

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• Can you have a seance to summon the ghost of a dead zombie?

  Dana Gould

  Zombie

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• Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts?

  Chris Hardwick

  Thinking, Class, People

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• My work is in itself a ghost of my vision.

  Thomas Demand

  Vision

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• Every adventure I've ever had with love and photography has ended in a similar misadventure. As is often the case, the rush of longing detaches from its object of desire, and my photographic ghosts lead me back to myself, alone.

  Justine Kurland

  Photography, Adventure, Desire

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• Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.

  Vik Muniz

  Photography, Thinking, Way

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