...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me;… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
“It is with true love as with ghosts and apparitions: Every one talks of it, and scarcely any one has seen it” — La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is with sincere affection or friendship as with ghosts and apparitions,--a thing that everybody talks of, and scarce any hath seen. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed. — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
Like vanishing dew, a passing apparition or the sudden flash of lightning -- already gone -- thus should one regard one's self. — Ikkyu Copy Share Image
Great Pompey's shade complains that we are slow, And Scipio's ghost walks unavenged amongst us! — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
On the Night of the Halloween, I have never seen any evil apparition or fearsome ghost, but politicians on TV! They are… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
I see the relationship sincerity/humor differently. Instead of seeing a balance between them, I see them more inextricably linked, as if one… — Alex Lemon Copy Share Image
This modernizing experiment seems to have something diabolic about it. Everything that was becomes rejected in the name of a modernity that… — Andrzej Stasiuk Copy Share Image
Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality; both as analysis… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
I cannot say my yes to legends that have been clearly and fancifully created. If I could not move my search beyond… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A famous anecdote concerning Cuvier involves the tale of his visitation from the devil—only it was not the devil but one of… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Most of my library consists of books on the Catholic faith: conversion stories, books on saints and Early Church Fathers, Apparitions of… — Gail Buckley Copy Share Image
Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The typical WW1 soldier was not an intellectual like Ernst Jünger or Wilfred Owen, but was a peasant draftee from Galicia or… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
Most of us had never seen a sober redneck before, and we have the Reagan Landslide to testify that none of us… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of flesh. In… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
White is the color of decomposition. White is also no color. White is nothing. In photography, the paper is white, next comes… — Dieter Appelt Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament;… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Apparitions are often confused with hauntings. The difference is that apparitions are "live" (intelligent consciousness) and hauntings are "recordings. — Loyd Auerbach Copy Share Image
The process by which the idea for a play comes to me has always been something I really couldn't pinpoint. A play… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
“Some of the apparitions that emerged from the shadows of doorways and alleys were incomplete, manifesting in full only as they reached… — C.D. Sweitzer Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the… — Antoni Tapies Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
we'll have to reclaim the ward 'taxes.' Why has it become a synonym for 'evil'? I understand that no one likes to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“...though leaving him always to remark, portentously, on his probably having formed a relation, his probably enjoying a consciousness, unique in the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Suddenly, as though in a dream, this apparition, this double apparition, approached me. The two most beautiful people in the world were… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
