quotes about Phantoms
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I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.
-- August StrindbergSource : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.11, Univ of California Press
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Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms.
-- Ben AffleckSource : "Fictional character: Holden". "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back", www.imdb.com. 2001.
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Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
-- Charisma Carpenter -
Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in.
-- Drake -
Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.
-- Edgar Lee Masters -
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 for individual and social harmony.
-- Emma Goldman -
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We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.
-- Enrique Lihn -
There are those who would love each other if once they were to speak to each other; when they spoke they would discover their souls were separated by phantoms and delusions
-- Ernest Hello -
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.
-- Erving Goffman -
If I am the phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I am to be saved it is because your love redeems me.
-- Gaston Leroux -
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The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform.
-- Gerard Butler -
Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.
-- Graham Joyce -
Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this? this phantom life streaking like a phosphorescent hound at the edges of your ruin?
-- Haven KimmelSource : Haven Kimmel (2002). “The Solace of Leaving Early: A Novel”, p.35, Anchor
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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 -
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I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares.
-- Ilsa J. Bick -
Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.
-- John Lancaster SpaldingSource : John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”
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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty.
-- John Ruskin -
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile.
-- Karin Slaughter -
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Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
-- Luigi Pirandello -
Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.
-- Maxwell BodenheimSource : Maxwell Bodenheim (1920). “Advice: A Book of Poems”
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Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.
-- Miguel de Unamuno -
God is not an elusive dream or a phantom to chase, but a divine person to know. He does not avoid us, but seeks us. When we seek Him, the contact is instantaneous.
-- Neva Coyle -
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Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
-- Olive Schreiner -
His last words, according to De Morgan: Man follows only phantoms.
-- Pierre-Simon Laplace -
Of all the phantoms fleeting in the mist Of time, though meagre all and ghostly thin; Most unsubstantial, unessential shade Was earthly fame.
-- Robert PollokSource : Robert Pollok (1829). “The Course of Time: A Poem, in Ten Books”, p.81
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This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.
-- Rumi -
This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.
-- Stephanie Zacharek -
For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.
-- Terri FarleySource : Terri Farley (2003). “Phantom Stallion #9: Gift Horse”, HarperCollins
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It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
-- Virginia Woolf -
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To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
-- Virginia Woolf -
For I do not exist: there exist but the thousands of mirrors that reflect me. With every acquaintance I make, the population of phantoms resembling me increases. Somewhere they live, somewhere they multiply. I alone do not exist.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.
-- Wallace Stevens -
I always found it weird when the Phantom would call Raoul insolent boy and the Raoul was obviously older than him.
-- Hugh PanaroSource : Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.
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I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.
-- Katherine ShindleSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.
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Love is best a phantom than reality, better in the chase than caught.
-- Jessie BurtonSource : Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.111, Pan Macmillan