Ghost Quotes: Unearthly Whispers & Haunting Words

"His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed"

Willie Morris, Writer

"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run"

George Matthew Adams, Philosopher

"True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"I don't believe in ghosts, but I am afraid of them"

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Poet

"Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity"

John McGahern, Writer

"Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise"

Erica Jong, Novelist

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

Mel Gibson, Actor

"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

"I am in Ghost Rider but I'm not sure when it's coming out"

Donal Logue, Actor

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"The bush is full of ghosts, and they never quite go away"

Xavier Herbert, Writer

"I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'"

Devon Werkheiser, Actor

"I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts"

Sally Field, Actress

"Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub"

Mary Austin, Writer

"It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent"

James Marsters, Actor

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts"

Italo Calvino, Journalist

"If he is a ghost, then it's very disappointing for me, because he is banished in the story, and that could mean that he won't be coming back, and that would be terrible, wouldn't it?"

Paul Darrow, Actor

"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, Author

"Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life"

Stephen Greenblatt, Critic

"San Francisco can no longer afford to be a city divided between downtown and neighborhoods, with a downtown that becomes a ghost town when workers go home for the evening"

Gavin Newsom, Politician

"I figure I basically am a ghost. I think we all are"

John Astin, Actor

"I have never yet heard of a murderer who was not afraid of a ghost"

John Philpot Curran, Public Servant

"As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing"

Jack Henry Abbott, Criminal

"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, Artist

"It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?"

Algernon H. Blackwood

"She's a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along"

Matthew McConaughey, Actor

"God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness. I also believe in Jesus Christ, the rebirth of the world. I also believe in the Holy Ghost, the comforter"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you"

Sylvia Browne, Celebrity

"If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost"

Lloyd C. Douglas, Clergyman

"I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"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"

Joshua Sylvester, Poet

"Only baptize them if you truly believe these people are ready, taking a little more time if necessary so the Holy Ghost can strengthen them a little more"

Richard G. Scott, Clergyman

"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"

Robert Stack, Actor

"Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

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