Ghost famous quotes

Have we forgotten that there is a Holy Ghost, that we must insist upon walking on crutches when we might fly?
-- A. B. Simpson

#Missionary #Might #Ghost

Let us honor the Holy Ghost.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Honor #Spirit #Ghost

Derek (Jeter) told me the ghosts would show up eventually!
-- Aaron Boone

#Yankees #Jeter #Ghost

In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
-- Adam Johnson

#People #Forever #Ghost

Perhaps we always want the person we love, to have the existence of a ghost.
-- Adolfo Bioy Casares

#Want #Ghost #Existence

But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
-- Alan Weisman

#Earth #Ghost

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Names #Ghost

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
-- Alexander Smith

#Ghost #Injury #Difficult

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
-- Alexandra Bracken

#Memories #People #Ghost

I don't believe in ghosts but they blindly believe in me
-- Amit Abraham

#Believe #Ghost #Believe In Me

My mother would say it is literally ghost writers who come to me.
-- Amy Tan

#Mother #Teaching #Ghost

Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley

#Tragedy #Ghost #Witch

Someone who claims to know what happens after death is probably someone we should be suspicious of -- they might be a ghost.
-- Andrew W.K.

#Might #Ghost #Claims

We are ghosts, hungry for something bigger than what our lips are kissing.
-- Anis Mojgani

#Kissing #Lips #Ghost

O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
-- Anne Boleyn

#Rocks #Quiet #Ghost

Like other ghosts, she whispers; not for me to join her, but so that, when I'm close enough, she can push me back into the world.
-- Anne Michaels

#World #Ghost #Enough

All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
-- Anthony Burgess

#Ghost #Life Is #Holy

Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.
-- Ariana Franklin

#Taken #Ghost #Proof

Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
-- Bess Truman

#Nuts #Half #Ghost

Well. I don't suppose you have to believe in ghosts to know that we are all haunted, all of us, by things we can see and feel and guess at, and many more things that we can't.
-- Beth Richardson Gutcheon

#Believe #Ghost #Wells

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
-- Bonnie L. Oscarson

#Ghost #Companionship #Holy

Nine times out of ten we find reasons for everything going on that aren't paranormal.
-- Brian Robertson

#Nine #Ghost #Reason

Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
-- Brigham Young

#Men #Few Words #Ghost

There is nothing as important as having the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
-- Bruce R. McConkie

#Important #Ghost #Companionship

God stands revealed or remains forever unknown.
-- Bruce R. McConkie

#Forever #Ghost #Holy

You are certainly under the guidance of the Holy Ghost or you wouldn't have come where you now are.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Ghost #Guidance #Holy

Already the dandelions Are changed into vanishing ghosts.
-- Celia Thaxter

#Vanishing #Dandelions #Ghost

He looked like he'd just seen the Ghost of You Better Shut Your Mouth...
-- Charlaine Harris

#Mouths #Ghost

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.
-- Charles Spurgeon

#Prayer #Heart #Ghost

If the dead can't rest in peace, how on Earth can the living?
-- Cheri Revai

#Rest In Peace #Earth #Ghost

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

#Travel #Ghost #Company

° “Not a ghost, but an angel.
-- Claudia Gray

#Angel #Ghost

We are the ghosts of the singing furies .
-- Conrad Aiken

#Singing #Ghost #Fury

The only good excuse for not succeeding is DEATH! Unless you're trying to be a ghost. Then it's LIFE!
-- Craig Benzine

#Trying #Succeed #Ghost

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?
-- Dan Barker

#Thinking #Action #Ghost

Down the ancient corridors through the gates of time, run the ghosts of dreams that we have left behind.
-- Dan Fogelberg

#Running #Dream #Ghost

I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.
-- Dara Wier

#Ideas #Ghost #Missions

I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.
-- Daul Kim

#Lonely #Gains #Ghost

Inspired questions will bring about inspired answers. Seek for the companionship of the Holy Ghost as you prepare.
-- David A. Bednar

#Answers #Inspired #Ghost

When we are baptized and confirmed, the promised blessing is that we may always have the Holy Ghost to be with us. If you are consistently good, you will have the companionship of the Holy Ghost much of the time.
-- David A. Bednar

#Blessing #May #Ghost

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.
-- David Bowie

#Hands #Awakening #Ghost

Every love story is a ghost story.
-- David Foster Wallace

#Ghost Stories #Stories #Ghost

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.
-- Dean Koontz

#House #Architecture #Ghost

Sorry, we've got ghosts.
-- Deborah Harkness

#Sorry #Ghost

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

#Ghost #Miserable #Forlorn

I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out.
-- Donal Logue

#Ghost #Coming Out #Riders

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.
-- Donald Harington

#Needs #Ghost

A ghost in marble of a girl you knew Who would have loved you in a day or two.
-- Edna St. Vincent Millay

#Girl #Two #Ghost

On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.
-- Eleanor Farjeon

#Dumb #Ghost #Speak

it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available.
-- Elizabeth Janeway

#World #Ghost #Made

Southampton's barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos.
-- Elizabeth Wein

#Elephants #Balloons #Ghost

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
-- Ellen Hopkins

#Bullshit #Ghost #Life Is

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
-- Emile M. Cioran

#Ghost #Mask #Holes

I myself am not afraid of ghosts; I am afraid of people.
-- Emilie Autumn

#People #Ghost #Not Afraid

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.
-- Eric Bana

#Ghost

[Happiness is] a ghost, it’s a shadow. You can’t really chase it. It’s a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
-- Eric Weiner

#Shadow #Sides #Ghost

I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.
-- Erin Morgenstern

#Father #Thinking #Ghost

The American woman's concept of marriage is a clearly etched picture of something uninflated on the floor. A sleeping-bag withoutair, a beanbag without beans, a padded bra without pads. To work on it, you start pumping--what the magazines call "breathing life into your marriage." Do enough of this and the marriage becomes a kind of Banquo's ghost, a quasi-living entity.
-- Florence King

#Marriage #Ghost #Kind

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
-- Frederic Chopin

#Ghost #Difficulty

Often, I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride.
-- Gabe Jennings

#Ghost #Stride #Runners

Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.
-- Gail Godwin

#Ghost

Blood!...Blood!... That's a good thing! A ghost who bleeds is less dangerous!
-- Gaston Leroux

#Blood #Ghost #Good Things

The opera ghost really existed
-- Gaston Leroux

#Opera #Ghost

We recognize the touch of the Opera ghost.
-- Gaston Leroux

#Opera #Ghost

Have you ever seen a witness? That's what she called herself. Not a ghost, those don't exist, and not an angel, those do, but a witness." "No." "Ever heard the term?" "Outside of a legal trial, no.
-- Gena Showalter

#Angel #Trials #Ghost

...Lovers are Like walking ghosts, they always haunt the spot Of their misdeeds.
-- George Henry Boker

#Lovers #Ghost #Spots

And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God. ("To Science")
-- George Sterling

#Atheism #World #Ghost

Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins

#Wings #World #Ghost

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.
-- Gilbert Ryle

#Machines #Ghost #Dogma

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.
-- Graham Joyce

#People #Ghost

Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever.
-- H. Rider Haggard

#Elements #Ghost #Individual

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble
-- Hans Holzer

#Hunting #Years #Ghost

Nobody believes in ghosts, but everybody is afraid of them ...
-- Helen McCloy

#Believe #Ghost

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.
-- Helene Hanff

#Fall #Looks #Ghost

The fruit of keeping covenants is the companionship of the Holy Ghost and an increase in the power to love.
-- Henry B. Eyring

#Covenant #Fruit #Ghost

To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
-- Henry Miller

#World #Ghost #Madmen

I wish ghosts were real!
-- Holly Madison

#Real #Wish #Ghost

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.
-- Hugh Jackman

#People #Ghost

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Way #Ghost #Rum

I get criticized for taking roles in films like 'Ghost Rider 2', but if you look at my resume, dude, I've mixed it up as much as I can.
-- Idris Elba

#Roles #Looks #Ghost

I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.
-- Ilsa J. Bick

#Land #Phantoms #Ghost

It is within you that the ghosts acquire voices.
-- Italo Calvino

#Voice #Ghost

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
-- Jack Abbott

#Night #Subjectivity #Ghost

As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
-- Jack Abbott

#Long #Ghost

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts.
-- Jacques Derrida

#Cinema #Ghost #Plus

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.
-- James Herbert

#Ghost

We are firm believers of the paranormal, but we believe over 80 percent of all claims can be disproved.
-- Jason Hawes

#Believe #Ghost #Claims

All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.
-- Jason Hawes

#Ghost #Skeptic

We once installed a $1.49 trap in a woman's toilet and she never had ghost problems again.
-- Jason Hawes

#Toilets #Ghost #Problem

One of the best possible perspectives from which to tell a story is that of a ghost, someone who is dead but can still witness.
-- Javier Marías

#Perspective #Stories #Ghost

Some ghosts haunt you for life. The best you can do is make room on the couch and get used to living with them.
-- Jay Bell

#Rooms #Ghost #Used

I am empty of everything. I am empty of everything but the thin, frail ghosts in my room.
-- Jean Rhys

#Rooms #Ghost #Empty

Most people when they have autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, they're biographies written by a ghost writer.
-- Jeff Dunham

#People #Biographies #Ghost

Part of the story of Ghosts of Ascalon is how they got to that tentative truce where you can find humans and charr working together.
-- Jeff Grubb

#Working Together #Stories #Ghost

I definitely believe in ghosts.
-- Jenna Dewan

#Believe #Ghost

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.
-- Jessica Alba

#People #Western Culture #Ghost

The inmates are ghosts whose dreams have been murdered.
-- Jill Johnston

#Dream #Inmates #Ghost

Don't matter if you believe in them or not. If they're there, they're there,' Mrs. Phipps said.
-- Joan Lowery Nixon

#Believe #Matter #Ghost

I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are.
-- John Astin

#Thinking #Ghost #Figures

I'm a ghost," said the small figure, then added, a little uncertainly, "Boo?
-- John Connolly

#Littles #Ghost #Figures