Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Hill

If you were writing a short ghost story, I would say start very quietly and go, 'One, two, three jump.' Or start with a jump and make it jumpier. But with a long story, it must have rises and falls.

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

In reality, we'll just become a ghost town if you take our high school away.

John Searles

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

Martin Luther

The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor.

Martin Luther

Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching.

Michael Ondaatje

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts.

Eric Bana

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

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.

Shirley MacLaine

All those ghosts were hanging around. ... If I had been them, I would have gone to work,

Claire Coffee

Real-life things, like spiders and snakes, that doesn't scare me, but if it's a monster or a ghost or an alien, that will always scare me.

Du Fu

After the battle, many new ghosts cry, The solitary old man murmurs in his grief.

They say that shadows of deceased ghosts Do haunt the houses and the graves about, Of such whose life's lamp went untimely out, Delighting still in their forsaken hosts.

Patrick Manning

This government will not increase the salaries. If you do that all you will get is an increase in ghost gangs.

Bob Dylan

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

Stephen King

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

Stephen King

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Mel Gibson

The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt.

Robert Stack

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

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?

George R. R. Martin

There are ghosts everywhere," Ser Jorah said softly. "We carry them with us wherever we go.

Sunday, this place is going to be a ghost town. Most of these guys have to be back at work on Monday.

It's a ghost town. In my subdivision, there are several houses under construction, and I've only seen three of our trucks.

It was like a ghost town. No one made any noises.

It made the staff confident, so they're sure there are no ghosts anymore.

James Herbert

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

Joseph Smith, Jr.

For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19

Kristin Hannah

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen.

Trey Anastasio

If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

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.

Jonathan Stroud

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