Ghost Quotes - Page 33

• What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Son, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

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• I've always been a horror fan! Ever since I can vastly remember, and I think it's because I was so terrified of monsters and ghosts as a kid that I had to sleep in front of my parents room until I was 12.

  Matthew Gray Gubler

  Kids, Sleep, Thinking

  "Fantasia 2014: A Gothic Interview With Matthew Gray Gubler". Interview with Shawn Loeffler, www.yellmagazine.com. August 6, 2014.

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• I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• One time I stayed at a haunted motel. When I checked into my room, there was a sheet on the floor, and I thought it was a ghost that had passed out, so I kicked it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Rooms

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• I don't do camps. Camps are for kids. I don't sleep in tents or roast marshmallows. I certainly don't tell ghost stories or own a sleeping bag. But I do work hard every single day.

  Chael Sonnen

  Hard Work, Sleep, Kids

  Source: www.nwfightscene.com

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• I believe in ghosts because I had a paranormal expierience once that was very personal. Though, every fiber in my being tries to convince me they don't exist.

  Gerard Way

  Believe, Trying, Fiber

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• I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Thinking, Blood

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all that tears, I want to truly suffer. Better one hundred bites, better the whip, vitriol, than this suffering in the head, this ghost of suffering which grazes and caresses and never hurts enough.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Hurt, Suffering, Tears

  "No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

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• I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Drama, Crazy, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The service at this airport restaurant is so bad I'm starting to panic that I'm a ghost.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Airports

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• I know what I miss as a cinemagoer is that balance of films that actually scare me, they're so few and far between. I loved ghost stories, I love horror stories, I love all of that stuff, but I really yearn for something to actually frighten me.

  Jane Goldman

  Ghost Stories, Horror Stories, Missing

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The worst of a modern stylish mansion is that it has no place for ghosts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Spirituality, Modern, Worst

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• Christ Not Begotten of Holy Ghost... Christ was begotten of God. He was not born without the aid of Man, and that Man was God!

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Jesus, Men, Christ

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• The Holy Ghost is certainly the best preacher in the world, and the words of Scripture the best sermons.

  Jeremy Taylor

  World, Scripture, Christianity

  Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1856). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying”, p.165

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• The question before the human race is, Whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether Priests and Kings shall rule it by fictitious Miracles? Or, in other words, whether authority is originally in the People? Or whether it has descended for 1800 Years in a succession of Popes and Bishops, or brought down from Heaven by the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove, in a Phial of holy Oil?

  John Adams

  Kings, Law, Oil

  John Adams, Abigail Adams, Thomas Jefferson (1971). “The Adams-Jefferson letters: the complete correspondence between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams”, Touchstone

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• The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.

  Henry Miller

  Men, White Man, Mexican

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.156, New Directions Publishing

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• In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

  Dick Cavett

  Miserable, Forlorn, Said

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

  Tony Parsons

  Thinking, Years, Class

  "My Week: Tony Parsons". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2009.

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

  Trey Anastasio

  Trying, Meat, Alive

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• Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.

  David J. Schwartz

  Ideas, People, Good Ideas

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• The spirit of God speaking to the spirit of man has power to impart truth with greater effect and understanding than the truth can be imparted by personal contact even with heavenly beings. Through the Holy Ghost, the truth is woven into the very fibre and sinews of the body so that it cannot be forgotten.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Men, Understanding, Woven

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• They tell us the Book of Mormon states that Jesus was begotten of the Holy Ghost. I CHALLENGE THAT STATEMENT. The Book of Mormon teaches NO SUCH THING! NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Jesus, Book, Challenges

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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• The wind kicks in stronger, branches clatter. Or maybe skeletons. Bones of abandonment. Ghosts that will never be.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Skeletons, Wind, Stronger

  Ellen Hopkins (2013). “Perfect”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• The celebrated Aboriginal painter Albert Namatjira loved the Ghost Gums of the Northern Territory... They are evocatively Australian, their white trunks contrasting with the red earth and the deep blue sky of the Dreamtime region that has for centuries sustained Namatjira's Aranda people.

  Richard Allen

  Blue, Sky, White

  Richard Allen (2009). “Australia's Remarkable Trees”, p.24, The Miegunyah Press

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• It is only with the companionship of the Holy Ghost that we can hope to be equally yoked in a marriage free from discord. I have seen how that companionship is crucial for felicity in a marriage. The miracle of becoming one requires the help of heaven, and it takes time.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Becoming One, Heaven, Miracle

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