Phantoms Quotes - Page 5

• I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.

  Mamata Banerjee

  Media, Criticism, Accepting

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• I don't go looking for phantom statements from people I support. I don't imagine phantom statements because I support them. If they do things that I don't like or don't agree with, my support can go. I mean, my support's not wedded to anybody at all times ever, depending.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, People, Support

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• A man's own conscience is his sole tribunal, and he should care no more for that phantom "opinion" than he should fear meeting a ghost if he crossed the churchyard at dark.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Dark, Men, Care

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• The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.

  Erving Goffman

  Acceptance, Different, Normalcy

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• It [film-making] really just has to do with my own ghosts and phantoms. And I have to say, in the end, it's just my way of seeing things.

  Sergio Leone

  Way, Ghost, Film

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• XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

  Stephen Crane

  Rocks, Wind, Long

  Stephen Crane (1998). “War Is Kind and Other Poems”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before.

  Rumi

  Reality, People, Lust

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.20, Shambhala Publications

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• Full-color images lack the poignancy of monochrome... Black-and-white film inherently peels off interesting images from the world; it sees things we do not see, and thus insists on the existence of a phantom presence within reality, a world we cannot perceive.

  Peter C Bunnell

  Black And White, Reality, Color

  Peter C. Bunnell (2006). “Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography”, Aperture

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• For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

  May Sinclair

  Men, Average, Imagination

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• I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Attitude, Thinking, Feelings

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. MArch 21, 2003.

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• It always felt like the price of being a writer was that you would - even in the most terrible moments, there was a little phantom version of you sitting on your shoulder with a notebook going, I can use this. OK, look at the way that the light is glinting off the broken plastic on the road next to the blood. You can use this. And it was always a very strange feeling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Notebook, Light, Blood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Friends, Years, Saws

  Interview with Paul Fischer, www.moviehole.net. December 20, 2004.

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• We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass, use and wont carry us through as a train carries the shadow of its lights.

  H. G. Wells

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  H. G. Wells (2015). “The Country of the Blind: H. G. Wells Collections”, p.266, 谷月社

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• The writer must hew the phantom rock.

  Carson McCullers

  Writing, Rocks

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Collected Stories of Carson McCullers”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

  Celia Imrie

  Stars, War, Gun

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• Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening, and then there's one voice from the past that's also driving the story forward. And you know that the two story lines will meet eventually.

  Jo Nesbo

  Past, Two, Voice

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• People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion.

  Rumi

  Mean, Reality, Wings

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.171, Shambhala Publications

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• The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

  August Strindberg

  Dream, World, Illusion

  August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.11, Univ of California Press

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• Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

  Alan Moore

  Mind, Geography, Existence

  "What Is Reality?". Proposed text for "Holy Smoke" by Alan Moore, 1999.

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• Man follows only phantoms.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Math, Science, Men

  "Budget of Paradoxes". Book by Augustus De Morgan, 1866.

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• Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sculpture, Painting, Raises

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.146, Wildside Press LLC

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• The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

  Marc Chagall

  Stars, Air, Magic

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922" edited by Christoph Vitali, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, exhibition catalogue (p. 41), 1991.

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• White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Swans, Sky, Cities

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1912). “The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.1218, Library of Alexandria

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• It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Frozen, World

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.425, Delphi Classics

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