Phantasmal Quotes

#1. Hushed as midnight silence.

John Dryden

#2. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

Swami Vivekananda

#3. And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.

James Joyce

#4. If flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom, that is not because they are too solid, too gross, too distinct, too "illustrious with being." They are too flimsy, too transitory, too phantasmal.

C.S. Lewis

#5. The walls were down, the only thing I could do was rebuild.

Robert Dugoni

#6. I dabble in all kinds of spirituality. I studied Kabbalah for over ten years, and you know it's all basically the same.

Lisa Rinna

#7. It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Manuel Puig

#8. Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

Walt Whitman

#9. Left him delighted with the imaginary Audition of the phantasmal sea-surge,

Ezra Pound

#10. The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

Jorge Luis Borges

#11. What you do that makes you happy and that makes your family, the people that love you, their opinion counts more than anybody out there that is putting a category on you or defining you according to the old phantasmal.

Angelique Kidjo

#12. Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms ... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

Kim Newman

#13. Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

Sam Bradford

#14. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#15. Be brave enough to live creatively.

Alan Alda

#16. I was possessed with a wonderful example of my Italian American family. They would come over and join us every Sunday, all my aunts and uncles and nephews and nieces, and I would sing for them.

Tony Bennett

#17. God has given to His works His own character of emeth; they are watertight, faithful, reliable, not at all vague or phantasmal.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Truth and ceremony are two things.

Marcus Aurelius