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
Demon. Gremlin. Poltergeist. Ghost. Phantom. Spirit. Shadow. Ghoul. Devil. People are afraid of them, so they relegate their existence to stories, volumes… — Garth Stein Copy Share Image
The body is imaginary, and we bow to the tyranny of a phantom. Love is a privilege perception, the most total and… — Adolfo Bioy Casares Copy Share Image
Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet,… — Christina Hoff Sommers Copy Share Image
Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
These phantoms speak with human voices . . . able to vanish or appear at will, to pass in and out through… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
Now we must remark, that there are two parts in the Commandment-the first forbids the erection of a graven image, or any… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
I have stood aside to see the phantoms of those days go by me. They are gone, and I resume the journey… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I think that most of the children's writers live in the world that they've created, and their children are kind of phantoms… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Maybe my work isn't a cry for help. It may just be a baby's need to cry or a dog's need to… — Jonathan Ames Copy Share Image
I see the state of all of us who live, nothing more than phantoms or a weightless shadow. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
our real fears are the sounds of footsteps walking in the corridors of our minds, and the anxieties, the phantom floatings, they… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
A Moment's Halt-a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
You have phantom income each year. No money is being put in your pocket, but you have to take some money out… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?… — Haven Kimmel Copy Share Image
“When you trust and you lose— it is because you were wrong to trust and what you believed was merely a phantom.… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The man who will go where his colors go, without asking, who will fight a phantom foe in the jungle and mountain… — T. R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee feels a… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
When we cling to thoughts and memories, we are clinging to what cannot be grasped. When we touch these phantoms and let… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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