Ghosts Quotes

• 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
  • Movie
  • Watch
  • Demons

• First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Time
  • Respect
  • Spirits

• I opened my door and everything they had for me was tainted because the land of Used-to-Be is just full of ghosts starving for your breath.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Door
  • Land
  • Starving

• I see ghosts.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • See
  • Ghosts
  • I See

• The statues of Lenin and Stalin are down, but the fight against their ghosts seems harder.

  

  Octavian Paler
  • Fight
  • Down
  • Ghosts

• No, ghosts are real. You can see them, touch them, and hear them. But they do not exist. Which is why science ignores them. But to claim they are a fabrication and do not exist because science ignores them is a mistake. Because ghosts are real.

  

  Natsuhiko Kyogoku
  • Science
  • Exist
  • Ghosts

• The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Suffered
  • Ghosts

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• I might be afraid of ghosts and like dragons and those things, but I'm not afraid of the Taliban.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Afraid
  • Dragons
  • Ghosts

• I don't even believe in magic, or ghosts or anything like that, and yet in a city like New York, on the subway, I definitely see ghosts and art seems to have some magical properties.

  

  Eric Drooker
  • Magic
  • Believe In
  • New York City

• I don't believe in ghosts.

  

  Rachel Hurd-Wood
  • Believe
  • Ghosts

• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

  

  George Eliot
  • Childhood
  • Sorrows
  • Ghosts

• There were so many ghosts in our house - the ghost of my brother, the ghost of my father's war, the ghost of my sister's voices. And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn't even met yet. They werer there. Lying in wait.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Wait
  • Voices
  • Ghosts

• Well, I've claimed to have seen two ghosts in a hotel room.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Two
  • Hotel
  • Ghosts

• 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
  • Fears
  • Comics
  • Insects

• I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Thought
  • Seen
  • Ghosts

• I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don't exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • Live
  • Elvis
  • Frank Sinatra

• Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit.

  

  Gail Godwin
  • Actors
  • Plays
  • Ghosts

• I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Graves
  • Ghosts
  • Birthdays

• The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • Life
  • Women
  • Shadows

• Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Built
  • Distress
  • Travellers

• I think we've seen the final days for two years. He's made a valiant stab, but the ghosts of Agassi are lurking more every day.

  

  Gene Scott
  • Days
  • Seen
  • Final

• All songs are living ghosts. And long for a living voice.

  

  Brendan Kennelly
  • Voice
  • Songs
  • Ghosts

• A lot of the songs on the new album are about imaginary things, things that you can't touch - ghosts and rumors, my dead grandmother, things visiting you in a dream.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Dream
  • Songs
  • Imaginary

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