Quotes with ghost

  • Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
  • The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
  • Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bryce Harper I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Barbara Mertz I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.
    Barbara Mertz
     
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  • Marva Collins Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.
    Marva Collins
    American educator (1936 - 2015)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Anne Boleyn O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
    Anne Boleyn
    English queen, second wife of Hendruk VIII
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  • George William Curtis Romance like a ghost escapes touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
    George William Curtis
    American journalist (1824 - 1892)
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  • Herman Melville The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Bruce Springsteen The highway is alive tonight
    But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
    I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
    With the ghost of old Tom Joad.
    The Ghost Of Tom Joad (1995) The Ghost of Tom Joad
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Francis Bacon The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bob Kane The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Alexander Smith There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Ben Jonson What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew,
    Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When the world has got hold of a lie, it is astonishing how hard it is to kill it. You beat it over the head, till it seems to have given up the ghost, and behold! the next day it is as healthy as ever.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Anthony Burgess All human life is here, but the Holy Ghost seems to be somewhere else.
    Anthony Burgess
    British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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