Phantom Quotes

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. (Mikhail Bakunin)
It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality. View quote
Virginia Woolf
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
William Wordsworth
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering for our own ease and convenience the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without risking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
I had to get used to wearing a mask and wearing a prosthetic and performing with those things while singing and expressing myself through stylized movement, while keeping it as human as possible so the audience could be closer to the horror of the Phantom. View quote
Gerard Butler
My first two records were more energetic; Phantom Moon is subtle, quiet; so these various reactions are just something I expected. View quote
Duncan Sheik
I haven't seen Clones, which has been during this period when I haven't seen much of anything, but I did see Phantom Menace, and see my feelings about it - see, first of all, I think that when you make a lot of movies, your attitude about the movies changes. View quote
Lawrence Kasdan
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. View quote
John Ruskin
Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored. View quote
Alan Moore
"Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black.""Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment."And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment. View quote
Stephen Crane
It is - last stage of all - When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves, To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. (Matthew Arnold)
This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom, - the very fashion of which "passeth away." View quote
François Fénelon
Whether we assert our rights by sea, or attempt their maintenance by land-whithersoever we turn ourselves, this phantom incessantly pursues us. Already has it had too much influence on the councils of the nation. View quote
Henry Clay
A Moment's Halt - a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste - And Lo! - the phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from - Oh, make haste! View quote
Omar Khayyám
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. View quote
Virginia Woolf
The Phantom Menace is not a masterpiece, but it's an example of how imagination, craftsmanship, and technological bravura can fashion superior entertainment out of something that is far from flawless. View quote
James Berardinelli
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. View quote
René Daumal
I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth. View quote
Norton Juster
Percy'd heard stories about amputees who had phantom pains where their missing legs and arms used to be. That's how his mind felt-like his missing memories were aching. View quote
Rick Riordan
The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than the razor's edge, sharper than a hound's tooth, more agile than a mule deer. It is more elusive than the merest phantom. Perhaps it does not even exist; perhaps it is a phantom. View quote
Philip K. Dick
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)
Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera. View quote
Gaston Leroux
I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the way through to the next June. In fact, I was singing for about two months before I even knew I had the role. View quote
Gerard Butler
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. View quote
Gerard Butler
Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So stupid; such pointless, obvious symbols. Totally uncontrollable anxiety soup, hateful, blatant nonsense. View quote
Jeff Lindsay