Ghostly Matters Quotes

#1. I had discovered that being a writer gave you a lot of license to fiddle with the truth, but I'd better not get into the habit of it.

Robert McCammon

#2. The old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

Helen McCloy

#3. I feel the most vulnerable when I'm in love. When my heart is open, and when life is making me feel like I have to open up myself completely. Love has a tendency to do that.

Naturi Naughton

#4. Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.

Shaun Hick

#5. The obvious merits utterance. Character is f**king pertinent.

Al Swearengen

#6. Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

Andy Rooney

#7. There was an especially deep bond between the eldest and the youngest. Enza and Stella were the beginning and end, the alpha and omega, the bookends that held all the family stories from start to finish as well as the various shades and hues of personality and temperament.

Adriana Trigiani

#8. they can't say I didn't love you they can't understand that some people love roses for the thorns and the way sometimes we need to be cut to feel alive and why I could walk away so calmly they said you were dead and remind me from time to time

Mark Abukoff

#9. Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government ... can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

George Washington

#10. Convert life into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.

Teddy Thompson

#12. It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.

Alberto Manguel

#13. The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

Ani DiFranco

#14. Getting cheated on is far worse than taking a beating. Just listen to all them records about it if you don't believe me.

Daren Dean

#15. The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.

Christopher Pike