Ghost Quotes

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

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.

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

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

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.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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.

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.

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

I'm very much a bit of a ghost presence.

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

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

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

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

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

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

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?

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.

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

There are some ghost stories in Japan where - when you are sitting in the bathroom in the traditional style of the Japanese toilet - a hand is actually starting to grab you from beneath. It's a very scary story.

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.

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.

I was beginning to think I was typecast in everyone's mind out there as a serial killer. I played a serial killer in one movie, I was the ghost of a serial killer in another and in a third, a computer-generated serial killer. The stage looks pretty good after those roles.

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.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.