Phantoms Quotes

190 Phantoms quotes by 154 unique authors

Phantom' was for me an interesting technique of telling the story. You have one voice that it is in the present telling what is happening,… — Jo Nesbo
All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten. — Frederick Lenz
For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we… — Omar Khayyam
The writer must hew the phantom rock. — Carson McCullers
I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase. — Barbara Corcoran
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with sightless eyes. — Dan Fogelberg
I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit… — Celia Imrie
In her own special, provocative language, Tonya Bolden gives a voice to the voiceless, a name to the nameless. Revelations abound in Strong Men Keep… — Herb Boyd
Thoughts and ideas are not phantoms. They are real things. Although intangible and immaterial, they are factors in bringing about changes in the realm of… — Ludwig von Mises
I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in… — Lev Grossman
I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you… — Lev Grossman
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away… — Marc Chagall
It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the… — Matthew Arnold
People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left… — Unknown Author
In that undifferentiated reality of the Self there is eternal bliss. All the phantoms of existence fade away. — Frederick Lenz
Humility does not live in the prison of illusion that says that this world is a dark and terrible place. Those perceptions are phantoms; everything… — Frederick Lenz
We are but phantoms ... and the phantoms of phantoms, desires like cloud-shadows and wills of straw that eddy in the wind; the days pass,… — H.G. Wells
Robert Duvall taught me years ago. He said, "You know theatre is not real. I don't like plays." You know, he doesn't like plays. And… — Billy Bob Thornton
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces… — Emma Goldman
We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. — Alan Greenspan
Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that… — Robert Green Ingersoll
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value… — Michelangelo
Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail. — Benito Mussolini

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