Quotes of: Ghost-stories Keyword

[Enid is looking through some posters at Seymour's place and discovers this grotesque, racist caricature of a black man's face - the logo of Coon Chicken Inn] Enid: What the...? What is this, Seymour? Seymour: Oh, that. I borrowed that from work abou...

Ghost World

Enid: [Enid is reading a note clipped to her diploma] What? Rebecca: What? Enid: These assholes are saying I have to go to summer school and take some stupid art class. Rebecca: Why? Enid: God, I didn't think that just because you get an "F" you have...

Ghost World

Enid: [picking up a swinging metal ornament of a cowboy on a horse] What is this? Seymour: Dana got it when we went shopping for antiques. She said it didn't go with her stuff, so she gave it to me. Said it would go better with my 'old-time thingamaj...

Ghost World

[Scrooge has met the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come] Rizzo the Rat: Oh, this is too scary. I don't think I wanna see any more! Gonzo: When you're right, you're right. [turning to face the audience] Gonzo: You're on your own, folks. We'll meet you at ...

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Robert Marley: You will be haunted by three spirits. Ebenezer Scrooge: Haunted? I've already had enough of that. Jacob Marley: Without these visits, you cannot hope to avoid the path we tread. Robert Marley: Expect the first ghost tonight, when the b...

The Muppet Christmas Carol

[last lines] Narrator: September 28th, 1997. It is exactly 11am. At the funfair, near the ghost train, the marshmallow twister is twisting. Meanwhile, on a bench in Villette Square, Félix Lerbier learns there are more links in his brain than atoms i...

Amélie

Constanze Mozart: Wolfie, I think you really are going mad. You work like a slave for that idiot actor who won't give you a penny. And here, this is not a ghost! This is a real man who puts down real money. Why on earth won't you finish it? Can you g...

Amadeus

I mean,” her mother paused to choose her words, “maybe you’ll get involved in some school related activities, or join a team, or maybe meet a nice boy.” “Ugh,” Keely groaned, “I don’t have time for that stuff mom. We’ve talked about...

Aaron Crabill

It's a shame, when I'm at the checkout line, and the cashier holds up my bill to the light, in search for a ghost president, or slashing a yellow marker to see if counterfeit. Even in money we can't be trusted. Makes we wonder whats next, will the go...

Anthony Liccione

Freud could never be certain, he said, in view of   his wide and early reading, whether what seemed like a new creation might not be the work instead of   hidden channels of memory leading back to the notions of others absorbed, coming now an...

Life

Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Cardinal virtues collection of stories on Jaime L. Cardinal Sin

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal

To live, a man needs food, water, and a sharp mind.

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

Is it possible to tell the truth in a society of lies? Or must you always, of necessity, become a liar? And if you lie to a liar, is the sun somehow negated or reversed?

Delirium Stories: Hana, Annabel, and Raven

Life is a story. Why do we die? Because we live. Why do we live? Because our Maker opened His mouth and began to tell a story.

Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent

What in the world could this family have done to deserve a fate such as this?

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

The beauty of the human soul Is not the pretty face. It’s found within the heart and hands Of those who look — and stay.

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

Eye of the Beholder: True Stories of People with Facial Differences

They called him a comical genius and carried his stories carefully home, and they wondered at how the stories spilled out on the way, for they never sounded the same repeated in their own kitchens.

East of Eden

Have you ever gotten to a point where you looked at your own life, thought "Fu** this," and reached for the economy-sized Valium? Ah, suicide. So dark and seductive.

Freak: The True Story of an Insecurity Addict

She will always be etched in my being, like thread sewn through the fibers of my very soul.

Finding Anna: A Memoir: The True Story of Child Sexual Abuse