Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

Every love story is a ghost story.

Jonathan Stroud

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

Immanuel Kant

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.

Jessica Szohr

Ghost stories always creep me out and weird me out. Those are always interesting to watch.

John Searles

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

Mitch Albom

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

Patricia Briggs

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

Wong Kar-wai

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

Virginia Woolf

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Eliot Seide

The people who were put out of work were pawns in a very nasty and unnecessary political game.

Deborah Grey

Only when you're nervous do you get nasty.

Elizabeth Kostova

I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.

Ayelet Waldman

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

Adam Hochschild

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.

Aldous Huxley

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Aldous Huxley

I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

Michael Boyd

I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.

George R. R. Martin

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

David Mamet

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

Laura Dern

I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.