Ghost Quotes (269 Quotes)


    There is nothing politer than this. It's literally a camera looking at people -- a radio that sees things -- but it's completely private. You see a white ghost. There is nothing that gives any indication of race or sex, so there is no racial profiling.




    Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.



    Ghosts do frighten me but I think it is really a fear of the unknown. It is also the way that I was raised as a child in the Asian culture to believe in their existence. Yes, there is such a thing, their image changes, depending on my own state of being. I think ghosts have the ability to change form.







    Bah humbug I've been visited by the ghosts of Saints past, present, and future, and they don't wear white sheets like most ghosts. Instead, they wear brown paper bags over their heads. Anyway, they all said it was time for a change.

    She revealed The ghost had a crush on me and liked to see me in the shower. He was in his 30s. They get lost and she created a life for him and he walked into it and left. ... I've seen ghost dogs, loads of them.

    Hard-favour'd tyrant, ugly, meagre, lean,
    Hateful divorce of love,"--thus chides she Death,--
    "Grim-grinning ghost, earth's worm, what dost thou mean
    To stifle beauty and to steal his breath,
    Who when he liv'd, his breath and beauty set
    Gloss on the rose, smell to the violet?



    San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening.

    In the physical reality of matter, there is no such thing as spirit nor ghost. But there are things of matter which differ in terms of size and laws of physics which govern them.

    Very few veterans can return to the battlefield and summon the moral courage to confront what they did as armed combatants. Wallowing in their pain and at times in self-pity, they are often incapable of facing the human suffering and death they inflicted, especially on the defenseless and the weak. They have a habit of disregarding, as they did during the war, the people who live in the lands they brutalized. Walking among the very human beings who bear the scars of war, they see only their own ghosts.

    The government would have to give up the ghost on seeking the death penalty, the sentence being life in an institution instead of in jail with the rest of the prison population without the possibility of parole, ... That's the only guilty plea that would be acceptable.



    ...So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.

    Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch dark, ghostly figures in their several stations but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year and had shared to some extent in its festivities and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.



    We're also doing a 3D Imax... which is really great fun... it's a ghost story that involves movies, and some of the movie monsters come to life. So, that's exciting, too, but in 3D Something I've always wanted to do.

    It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

    This thing scared me at first. It scared me because you are confronting almost like a ghost, ... Some people will not like this because it brings up too much pain. And some people will like it because it flushes pain.


    I was surprised to see them here. I was like, 'Man, we beat Kentucky, and the fans come out.' It was great. This is the most people I've seen at Georgia. Last year, it was like a ghost town in here.


    We might stop with 'Ghost.' We could easily put out another video we've talked about a whole bunch of possible songs to make videos for but we want to focus on doing some touring, and making a new record as soon as possible, ... So maybe we don't need to make another video. But I've always wanted to do a video for 'You Know What They Do to Guys Like Us in Prison,' so, really, who knows





    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.

    The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.









    If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.



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