Ghost Quotes - page 8

In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost. (John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn)
Boo, Forever Spinning like a ghost on the bottom of a top, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you. View quote
Richard Brautigan
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. View quote
Alexander Smith
Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire Of watching you; and swing me suddenly Into the shade and loneliness and mire Of the last land! There, waiting patiently, One day, I think, I'll feel a cool wind blowing, See a slow light across the Stygian tide, And hear the Dead about me stir, unknowing, And tremble. And I shall know that you have died, And watch you, a broad-browed and smiling dream, Pass, light as ever, through the lightless host, Quietly ponder, start, and sway, and gleam- Most individual and bewildering ghost!- And turn, and toss your brown delightful head Amusedly, among the ancient Dead. View quote
Rupert Brooke
The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds. View quote
Terry Goodkind
It remains true that Michelangelo's intensely personal use of the nude greatly altered its character. He changed it from a means of embodying ideas to a means of expressing emotions; he transformed it from the world of living to the world of becoming. And he projected his world of the imagination with such unequaled artistic power that its shadow fell on every male nude in art for three hundred and fifty years. Painters either imitated his heroic poses and proportions or they reacted against them self-consciously and sought a new repertoire of attitudes in the art of fifth-century Greece. In the nineteenth century the ghost of Michelangelo was still posing the models in art schools. View quote
Kenneth Clark
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. View quote
Francis Bacon
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. View quote
Dick Cavett
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
God the Father is a person separate from the Holy Ghost. Totally separate. ...Do you know that the Holy Spirit has a soul and a body separate from that of Jesus and the Father? ...God the Father then is a triune being within Himself. He's a person, He has a soul. ...A soul is an intellect. ...God thinks ...separate from the Son and separate from the Holy Ghost. ...God the Father is a separate individual from the Son and the Holy Ghost, who is a triune being who walks in a spirit body and He has hair...has eyes...has a mouth...has hands. View quote
Benny Hinn
I ran home [from Cloud's Rest to Yosemite Valley] in the moonlight, with long, firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong. Down through the junipers - down through the firs; now in jet-shadows, now in white light; over sandy moraines and bare, clanking rock; past the huge ghost of South Dome, rising weird through the firs - past glorious Nevada - past the groves of Illilouette - through the pines of the valley; frost-crystals flashing all the sky beneath, as star-crystals on all the sky above. All of this mountain-bread for one day! (John Muir)
Our good friend LeRoi Moore passed on and gave up his ghost today, and we will miss him forever. View quote
Dave Matthews
History is a set of nested resonances with each epoch being shorter than the one that preceded it. This event horizon is like a series of ghost horizons, and once you enter into history, you enter into the outer shell of the temporal field of the attractor or the concrescence. View quote
Terence McKenna
"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies, "Out there upon the landing." I turned to look in some surprise, And there, before my very eyes, A little Ghost was standing! View quote
Lewis Carroll
Oh, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped and chawed the buttered toast They gave us for our tea. View quote
Lewis Carroll
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face. View quote
Bob Dylan
My patron saint is a-fighting with a ghost. He's always off somewhere when I need him most. View quote
Bob Dylan
Any big hotels have got scandals,' he said. 'Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go. Sometimes one of em will pop off in his room, heart attack or stroke or something like that. Hotels are superstitious places. No thirteenth floor or room thirteen, no mirrors on the back of the door you come in through, stuff like that. View quote
Stephen King
we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts. View quote
Stephen King
Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost. View quote
Ray Bradbury
And I live with the dead – my mother, my sister [Sophie], my grandfather, my father [who died in 1889, when Munch was in France].. .Every day is the same – my friends have stopped coming – their laughter disturbs me, tortures me.. ..my daily walk round the old castle becomes shorter and shorter, it tires me more and more to take walks. The fire in the fireplace is my only friend – the time I spend sitting in front of the fireplace gets longer and longer.. ..at its worst I lean my head against the fireplace overwhelmed by the sudden urge – Kill yourself and then it's all over. Why live? I light the candle – my huge shadow springs across half the wall, clear up to the ceiling and in the mirror over the fireplace I see the face of my own ghost. (Edvard Munch)
I have a liking old For thee, though manifold Stories, I know, are told Not to thy credit; How one (or two at most) Drops make a cat a ghost- Useless, except to roast- Doctors have said it:How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards; Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards. View quote
Charles Stuart Calverley
Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?' View quote
Nicolas Cage
Nor would he recognize hope if it came to him. Too much a stranger, too long a ghost. View quote
Steven Erikson