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Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy

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

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about nothing

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott about wanderer, night, experience, life, things

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

Quote by Francis Bacon

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

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about thinking

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

Quote by Charles Dickens about idea

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

Quote by Mel Gibson about film

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

Quote by Sara Paretsky about time, country, work

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.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about comedy, wealth, magic, country

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.

Quote by Simon Pegg about opinion, joke, contentment

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

Quote by Brian Aldiss about literature, fiction, science

I read the other day in a book by a fashionable essayist that ghosts went out when the electric light came in. What nonsense!

Quote by Edith Wharton about opinion, light, day