Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wong Kar-wai

There are certain types of genres that are impossible in China. Ghost stories, something too graphic, too violent, and of course if it's too political. Other than that, it will be fine.

Virginia Woolf

How are we to account for the strange human craving for the pleasure of feeling afraid which is so much involved in our love of ghost stories?

Robert Stack

I don't mind UFO's and ghost stories, it's just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself.

Jonathan Stroud

Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.

David Foster Wallace

Every love story is a ghost story.

Stephen King

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

Mitch Albom

This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.

Patricia Briggs

Are you going to tell me what that was about?” Adam asked as we went back upstairs. “Sometime,” I told him. “When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

John Searles

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

Samuel Johnson

Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed.

Emily Dickinson

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.

Elizabeth I

It is good to jest, but not to make a trade of jesting.

Helen Rowland

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Plautus

If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Many a true word is spoken in jest

Jean de la Bruyere

Jesting is often only indigence of intellect.