G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Ghosts cannot be put on the witness stand, or have their fingerprints taken. They are completely proof against proof.”
“Ghosts carry fragments of bone
into a portion where the earth is scatheless & place
them on the anther & filaments of roses.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.”
Source: Tortilla Flat
“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking instant symbolic refuge in a ready-made iconography of early safety and satisfaction. That exact place is where ghosts go.”
Source: Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
“Ghosts don't have DNA.”
Source: Drive: An Old Castle Novel
“Ghosts don’t stay buried when they’re laced in gold.”
Source: Giant Country
“Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.”
Source: Never Fade
“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.”
Source: M
“Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.”
Source: M
“Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.”
Source: Perfect
“Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”
“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!”
Source: The Dressmaker's Secret
“Ghosts! […] I almost think we are all of us ghosts. It is not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that ‘walks’ in us. It is all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we cannot shake them off. Whenever I take up a newspaper, I seem to see ghosts gliding between the lines. There must be ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sands of the sea. And then we are, one and all, so pitifully afraid of the light.”
“Ghosts never show their face, but you have to show your face”
“Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave
Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot;
Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit,
Where long ago a giant battle was;
And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass
In every place where infant Orpheus slept.
Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept
Into a sort of oneness, and our state
Is like a floating spirit's. But there are
Richer entanglements, enthralments far
More self-destroying, leading, by degrees,
To the chief intensity: the crown of these
Is made of love and friendship, and sits high
Upon the forehead of humanity.”
“ghosts rising in barns
covered with snow
gliding their backs over
English ivy interlaced
with green creepers.
a duet of hymn & slumber
a landscape husked
with smells of petroleum
along frozen glaciers
where a Diuca finch nests.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“Ghosts scale brute topography
until the end of a day. Call them cartographers.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“Ghosts seem harder to please than we are; it is as though they haunted for haunting’s sake -- much as we relive, brood, and smoulder over our pasts.”
“Ghosts sit in my mouth and sing.”
“Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.”
Source: Perfect
“Ghosts... they are the completions of the deads intended gestures, there unfinished plans still hanging in the air - something like when you forgot one thing and so you pantomime the motion.”
Source: Breathing Lessons
“Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.”
“Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night”
“Ghosts were just a way that some stupid people dealt with their dull lives.”
Source: From a Whisper to a Scream
“Ghosts were not the spirits of the dead returning but the memories of the living not yet laid to rest.”
Source: Ill Wind
“Ghosts will forever put in appearances, as they should. Our illusions have muscle and meaning. The past returns at midnight, in the heart of our dreams, and the rains and the willows forever remind us of the sacrifices we’ve offered and those we have yet to make.”
Source: A Choir of Ill Children
“Ghosts with periscope eyes,
each a mausoleum of violet lilac sent to earth in
another form.”
Source: Ghost Tracks
“Ghosts, like ladies, never speak till spoke to.”
“Ghosts, we hope, may be always with us - that is, never too far out of the reach of fancy. On the whole, it would seem they adapt themselves well, perhaps better than we do, to changing world conditions - they enlarge their domain, shift their hold on our nerves, and, dispossessed of one habitat, set up house in another. The universal battiness of our century looks like providing them with a propitious climate.”
“Ghotes? Vosts?” Heldra suggested. “What should we call ghost voting?”
“We shouldn’t be calling it anything,” Ari said, dropping into a chair in frustration and pulling at her hair. “It shouldn’t be happening.”
Source: The Last King of the Mountain
“Ghouls weren't smart, but like the Energizer Bunny they kept going and going.”
Source: Night World No. 3: Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight
“Gi ham sterk drikk som er sin ende nær, og vin til ham hvis sjel er bedrøvet”
Source: Proverbs
“GI’s were returning to the United States and many others were being shipped to the Pacific to finish what looked to be a difficult battle ahead. The Japanese soldiers were a formidable foe, many of whom were willing to die for their country. On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima and three days later dropped one on Nagasaki. The Imperial Japanese Navy was now unable to continue conducting operations and their army would no longer be able to withstand an Allied invasion of the Japanese islands. Less than a week later, on September 2, 1945, Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signed the Japanese Instrument of an unconditional Surrender on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo harbor. In the United States, everyone celebrated VJ Day, Victory over Japan Day, and the end of the war.”
“Gia sent for her mother and they took an apartment, just a seven-minute walk from the studio."We had just one room when I started.No furniture of our own.No nothing,"Gia said later."It was a small cubbyhole of an apartment near Universal".Her mother adjusted to Hollywood."She liked it for my sake.She never did really feel at home here.I think it's hard for people who just live here to feel at home.There is no life really.You're looking for parts,or trying to get a good part instead of a wrong one.”
Source: Fallen Angels: The Lives And Untimely Deaths Of 14 Hollywood Beauties
“Gia turned on the burner and reached for a saucepan. She lightly crushed two cloves of garlic with the side of a knife, then minced and sautéed them in olive oil and a knob of butter. She whisked in a little flour, toasting it in the oil, added a pinch of salt, then raised the heat and whisked it in a cup of homemade chicken broth from the fridge until the soup began to thicken. She beat two eggs together in a bowl with some grated Parmesan and added them gently to the soup, where they poached into gold and white strands of savory-soft egg and cheese.
Gia selected a big earthenware bowl, ladled in her soup, ground in some fresh black pepper, and placed it in front of Angelina with a napkin and a spoon.
"Stracciatella. For you."
Angelina leaned over the bowl with her eyes closed and let the delicious wisps of steam rise up to her face. She picked up the spoon and sulkily nicked off a piece of egg. Gia returned to her cup of coffee, with an experienced parent's complete indifference as to whether the meal she'd prepared was eaten or not.
Angelina stole a glance from her and dipped into the bowl, seduced by the aroma of toast laced with sweet and savory garlic, mingled with the soothing sustenance of good chicken broth. She sipped and felt warm comfort spread into her belly, across the bridge of her nose and the back of her neck.”
Source: Angelina's Bachelors
“Giacché, che cosa è mai uno stato dove non si sogni?”
Source: The Napoleon of Notting Hill
“Giacché se la donna comincia a dire la verità, la figura nello specchio rimpicciolisce; l'uomo diventa meno adatto alla vita. Come potrebbe continuare a giudicare, a civilizzare gli indigeni, a legiferare, a scrivere libri, a indossare il tight e a pronunciare discorsi nei banchetti, se non fosse più in grado di vedersi riflesso, a colazione e a pranzo, almeno due volte più grande di quanto veramente sia?”
Source: A Room of One's Own / Three Guineas
“Giacché se la donna comincia a direr la verità, la figura nello specchio rimpicciolisce; l'uomo diventa meno adatto alla vita. Come potrebbe continuare a giudicare, a civilizzare gli indigeni, a legiferare, a scrivere libri, a indossare il tight e a pronunciare discorsi nei banchetti, se non fosse più in grado di vedersi riflesso, a colazione e a pranzo, almeno due volte più grande di quanto veramente sia?”
“Giacomo era conscio che nostalgia e malinconia, come quasi tutti i sentimenti umani, sono stati. Ed essendo stati, sono luoghi, ed essendo luoghi, li si può raggiungere, o provarci.”
“Giampalo Boschetti is a real estate investor and hotel operator, based in San Francisco, CA.”
“Gian Luigi Polidoro and his girlfriend had written this script, it was an American comedy, and they decided I was the guy to play the part. I was young, they offered me the lead in the film, and I said, "Sure, I'll do it." And I'm telling you, there is a movie waiting to be made about the making of a movie like that, particularly at that time in New York. I mean, we shot all over the streets of New York without permits. We would literally grab a shot and run. But Rent Control... I think the total cost was $100,000, and to this director's credit, I think it looks like $200,000.”
“Gian Pero Frau, one of the most important characters in the supporting cast surrounding S'Apposentu, runs an experimental farm down the road from the restaurant. His vegetable garden looks like nature's version of a teenager's bedroom, a rebellious mess of branches and leaves and twisted barnyard wire. A low, droning buzz fills the air. "Sorry about the bugs," he says, a cartoonish cloud orbiting his head.
But beneath the chaos a bloom of biodynamic order sprouts from the earth. He uses nothing but dirt and water and careful observation to sustain life here. Every leaf and branch has its place in this garden; nothing is random. Pockets of lettuce, cabbage, fennel, and flowers grow in dense clusters together; on the other end, summer squash, carrots, and eggplant do their leafy dance. "This garden is built on synergy. You plant four or five plants in a close space, and they support each other. It might take thirty or forty days instead of twenty to get it right, but the flavor is deeper." (There's a metaphor in here somewhere, about his new life Roberto is forging in the Sardinian countryside.)
"He's my hero," says Roberto about Gian Piero. "He listens, quietly processes what I'm asking for, then brings it to life. Which doesn't happen in places like Siddi." Together, they're creating a new expression of Sardinian terreno, crossing genetic material, drying vegetables and legumes under a variety of conditions, and experimenting with harvesting times that give Roberto a whole new tool kit back in the kitchen.
We stand in the center of the garden, crunching on celery and lettuce leaves, biting into zucchini and popping peas from their shells- an improvised salad, a biodynamic breakfast that tastes of some future slowly forming in the tangle of roots and leaves around us.”
Source: Pasta, Pane, Vino: Deep Travels Through Italy's Food Culture
“Giancarlo Giammetti has a lot of nervous energy. He's a director, really. He was trying to direct the Valentino movie over my shoulder. I don't blame him - that's been his job for 50 years. But I had final cut in the movie by contract and I wouldn't have made the movie if I had not been completely independent.”
“Gianfranco Zola once sent Gary Pallister the wrong way to such an extent that he needed a ticket to get back in.”
“Gianni created the whole thing. I came later and helped him.”
“GIANNI. Father, all due respect...but what's your sin to a sinner like me?”
Source: Toll Booth
“Giannine--What are they going to do: smack me on the head with a pamplet?”
Source: Heir Apparent
“Giant agencies are wobbling like drunkards... the rest of you should be sharpening your knives.”
“Giant canvases that glorified her naked breasts and half smile, songs rhyming Saina and wanna, unfinished novels about an unknowable girl of dreams – none of that (and she’d had all of it) was as romantic as a boyfriend who would notice that the lightbulb in her hallway had blown out and change it without even bothering to mention the favour.”
Source: The Wangs vs. the World
“Giant group events are distorting organisms: You can like and hate them in rapid succession.”
“Giant letters march across the dome of the sky: HOME NOT FOUND. Huw, who knows Comic Sans when she sees it, winces in mild disgust.”
Source: The Rapture of the Nerds: A tale of the singularity, posthumanity, and awkward social situations