Ghosts Quotations

I love the Warner Brothers lot. There is so much history there. They've done such a smart thing. They have signs outside of each stage which tell you what movies and TV shows were shot inside. So cool... you can almost feel the ghosts of actors past.

The thing I find really scary about ghosts and demons is that you don't really know what they are or where they are. They're not very well understood. You don't know what they want from you. So it's the kind of thing you don't even know how to defend yourself against. Anything that's unknown and mysterious is very scary.

When I write short fiction or novellas, I like to leave a hint of the fantastic, of the unreal. If you write a completely fantastic novel with ghosts and everything, the effect is less powerful than if you portray an absolutely realistic situation and, in the middle of this, you put a layer of fantasy, of mystery.

Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.

I went to Cork, Ireland, and stood on the dock some of my ancestors had left from. I felt their ghosts gather round me, and I cried to imagine what it must have felt like - leaving that beautiful land and those beloved people, knowing it was forever.

I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.

My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' was a very familiar one.

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

When we shoot 'Scrubs' I spend every waking hour of my life in an abandoned and haunted hospital. All I can date there are ghosts and they tend to be horrible snugglers.

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.

With my writing, I can still play inside an enchanted castle or live inside an old fort. I can run from ghosts or ride dolphins any day of the week.

Worshippers of the demigods go to the demigods, the worshippers of the ancestors go to the ancestors, and the worshippers of the ghosts go to the ghosts, but My devotees come to Me (and are not born again).

There are ghosts that will follow you your whole life. I think I've met a few of those ghosts head-on.

Last year was such a success. We are looking forward to seeing all the ghosts and goblins again this year.

My interest in the potency of fear comes from my Taiwanese childhood in which fear of ghosts was used to shape my values.

My two best pieces would have to be Ghosts of Mississippi and my new film Bookworm. Bookworm was special for me to do because I really idolize the writings of Mamet. Also, I got to work with Tony Hopkins, and I really love Tony.

Growing up, there were two ghosts in my house, a male and female. They hung out in the basement. The male was more frightening, but the female was good.

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.

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

I think we managed to exorcise some ghosts left over from last year.

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.

It is not only in Bosnia-Herzegovina that you find politicians trying to raise hoary old ghosts of the past and gruesome specters to drive people into the ballot box to vote for them,

I think talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God,

Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

We get ghost hunters from all over the world. I never knew there was so much interest in ghosts until I bought this.

When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.

We only knew a couple of ghosts were rampaging through Alabama. But we just pushed and pushed for a break, and we forced a break in the case.

When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors

Yet call not this long life; but think that IAm, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?

Yet call not this long life; but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?

When you play here in the Garden, it always has that special quality to it. The ghosts are still here. We try to remind the young guys that this is a great stage to perform on.

We chased a lot of our ghosts away.

The South is full of memories and ghosts of the past. For me, it is the most inspiring place to write, from William Faulkner's haunted antebellum home to the banks of the Mississippi to the wind that whispers through the cotton fields.

I've never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the 'Ghostbusters' represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.

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

Stories of neighborhood ghosts went hand and hand with stories of family. I still hear stories like that on occasion and I can't get enough of them.

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Apparently, with this drug, if you don't take it at night, when you wake up in the morning, you are really the old person. And ... . it became very important that Janet, his wife, see him the next morning, and it's the old Tommy all over again. What I also tied in there was that these pills that he is taking are keeping the ghosts at bay, and when he doesn't take them, the door is open again.

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.

You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!

This certainly removes some of the stain. They have carried into the future all the ghosts of the Black Sox and this whole Second City thing. They have been in the shadow of all of that forever.

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.

There were ghosts of the eyes of all the boys you sent away, ... They haunt this dusty beach road in the skeleton frames of burned-out Chevrolets.

There's almost a sacred responsibility top make sure the family's wealth grows, and you have the ghosts of your ancestors looking over your shoulder.

They're like ghosts - there one second and gone the next.

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

It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and ghouls, Grinning goblins fighting duels, Werewolves rising from their tombs, Witches on their magic brooms. In masks and gown we haunt the street And knock on doors for trick or treat. Tonight we are the king and queen, For oh tonight it's Halloween!

The consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor

If you build a replica, it is still a replica. The magic of a historic structure is that it was standing on that site and the ghosts of the people who were in its past would actually recognize it.

I like to believe there are ghosts all over the place!

Clearly, the ghosts of 9/11 have come home to roost. And you basically have many, many different filmmakers coming from all different areas of the filmmaking business addressing the issue, whether going into the past or dealing with the present. The Middle East and its discontent are front and center.

I asked them if these were good ghosts or bad ghosts, and if they were good ghosts why it was a problem.

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

Boy, can't you feel the ghosts of a century and a half of great thinkers, especially Twain?

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

...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.