I like the influence of the macabre, but I don’t believe in ghosts.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
I see ghosts all the time. Genuinely. I think I’ve seen about four.
London is a city of ghosts; you feel them here. Not just of people, but eras. The ghost of empire, or the blitz, the plague, the smoky ghost of the Great Fire that gave us Christopher Wren’s churches and ushered in the Georgian city.
I think there’s something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn’t want to be this kid whose Dominicanness was something caught utterly in the past, is an abstraction, the thing that I write about. Instead I wanted it to be, first and foremost, a thing that I lived.
I like to dim the lights and talk about the ghosts I’ve known and invite other people to tell me their stories.
Ghosts exist.
I like to call up ghosts of things past for myself when I’m working a lot.
I think anybody’s who’s ever traveled to Paris or any sort of older European city will get caught up in the romance of the history and the ghosts you’re surrounded by every day.
I don’t believe in ghosts or ESP or elves… or God. But I am spiritual in the sense that I get a lump in my throat when I listen to Vaughan Williams.
I’m scared of ghosts and aliens.
My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world of ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ was a very familiar one.
The last book I read before I wrote my first book – ‘Ghosts of Manhattan’ – was ‘The Gold Coast’ by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
Halloween isn’t the only time for ghosts and ghost stories. In Victorian Britain, spooky winter’s tales were part of the Christmas season, often told after dinner, over port or coffee.
Shakespeare also introduces the supernatural into some of his tragedies; he introduces ghosts, and witches who have supernatural knowledge.
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.
It’s kind of appropriate to me that Batman is still a part of the ‘Justice League Dark’ story. I think it would be strange if any of the other ‘Justice League’ characters were involved in putting together this kind of motley crew of dead people and mediums and ghosts and demons and phantoms.
I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were American men who don’t exist anymore. But there are ugly things about them, too.
A friend of mine passed away unexpectedly at the very end of making ‘Ghosts’, someone who had been as close to me as someone could get, someone who was far too young. But I couldn’t really sing about it for a long time – not in the way I would have wanted to.
Indigenous people in films, it’s all, like, nose flutes and panpipes and, you know, people talking to ghosts… which I hate.
If anyone boos you offstage, that is simply applause from ghosts.
People who believe in science have a hard time believing in ghosts and the supernatural.
I believe in ghosts.
I don’t necessarily not believe in ghosts, but I’ve never seen a ghost. A ghost has never jumped out and been like, ‘Hey, how’s it going?’
When we did this reboot, I thought ‘Ghostbusters’ fans would be so excited: ‘They’ve got the new technology – the ghosts are going to look real now.’
Earlier I used to be scared of ghosts. Now, after having done so many paei films, I start thinking to myself ‘Naaney Pei.’
Many people told me such convincing ghost stories that I felt that there really were ghosts, though I hadn’t seen any. And though I still haven’t seen a ghost, I feel that they are all around us; we are just not aware of them being there.
If we discovered, emphatically, that ghosts were real, I probably wouldn’t be surprised.
I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
I believe in spirits, not ghosts.
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
But disco is the remedy for ghosts.
People aren’t quiet about their experiences with ghosts anymore.
I’ve always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth – stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.
Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.
Halloween might be a time that’s renowned for ghosts, but we no longer experience ghosts only on Halloween. In our dating lives, we are now used to being ‘ghosted’ the whole year round.
I know that there are energies that vibrate frequencies that are so subtle you could say that they exist in a different territory or realm or sphere, and people mistake these frequencies for ghosts.
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.
I can’t explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk’s habit. I have no idea. I’m not a ghost person… it doesn’t mean there aren’t unexplained things; I just don’t think they’re ghosts.
Counterintelligence is, in effect, chasing ghosts, which is why the tools used to investigate foreign intelligence activity are secret, like human sources or electronic surveillance.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
I don’t believe in ghosts, but I believe in aliens and alternate dimensions.
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