Top 273 Phantom Tollbooth Quotes & Sayings

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

In the Broadway world, I've always wanted to play Valjean in 'Les Mis', since I've already played Gavroche. I'd also like to play the Phantom of the Opera, but I haven't really thought about any film characters. You've got to have a whole lot of training for the Phantom role, vocally.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the 'Chronicles Of Narnia,' 'The Wizard Of Oz,' 'The Phantom Tollbooth,' the 'Dungeons & Dragons' cartoon on Saturday morning in the '80s.

Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in.

I mean, I made The Phantom, although The Phantom was, believe it or not, an independent film. It was just a very large, expensive independent film.

What I can't tell is, I don't know if there's a subliminal resistance to the idea of a sequel to 'The Phantom of the Opera' anyway.

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

People have realized that films like Phantom have different remuneration structures.

That's what improvising is like for me. There's no tollbooth between my impulse and my action.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth.

The three roles that I have always admired are Valjean, Phantom and Jesus and I've enjoyed them all so much.

The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a 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.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

We can feel in Poland a kind of phantom pain for lost multi-ethnic territories.

Material existence is entirely founded on a phantom realm of mind, whose nature and geography are unexplored.

I read the Phantom comics when I was in Australia shooting 'Dead Calm'' and when one of the crew told me that there were plans for a movie, I went for it. That was in 1987 and I told (producer) Graham Burke I was going to be the Phantom. We had a laugh about that recently because you usually get what you deserve, not what you desire, and that is especially true in Hollywood!

Time is but a phantom dagger That motion lifts to slay itself.

It's always been tough to imagine the T.U.F.F. Puppy animal gang living next to Danny Phantom.

I'm still wondering about the Phantom in the chair, you know at the end of Phantom [of the Opera], so I guess that's my sort of idiocy. I still haven't figured out how they do that.

I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?

Sit, Phantom!" Ivy cooed. "On your bottom!" "Oh, for goodness' sake!" Gabriel put down his book and pointed a longer finger at Phantom. "Sit," he commanded in a deep voice. Phantom looked sheepish and sank straight to the floor. Ivy scowled in frustration. "I've been trying to get him to do that all day! What is it with dogs and male authority?

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth.

It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality.

The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.

I don't go looking for phantom statements from people I support. I don't imagine phantom statements because I support them. If they do things that I don't like or don't agree with, my support can go. I mean, my support's not wedded to anybody at all times ever, depending.

Science robs men of wisdom and usually converts them into phantom beings loaded up with facts.

The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no effective interrelation and though the opinion is not effectively present in the units. Such an opinion is spoken of as 'public opinion,' a fiction which is appealed to by individuals and by groups as supporting their special views. It is impalpable, illusory, transient; "'tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"; a nullity which can nevertheless for a moment endow the multitude with power to uplift or destroy.

A microscopic phantom of the universe; this is all that we are able to be.

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade.

'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.

Socialism is a fraud, a comedy, a phantom, a blackmail.

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

Such phantom blossoms palely shining Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind.

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

Yes, but Phantom Productions is my core team. It is like my family. And I love them.

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment.

The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

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.

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

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.

If you look at the great frauds of all time, Enron had that phantom trading floor. What Herbalife has is it has phantom or fictitious customers.

I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure.

The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air.

You wanna have laughs? Do what I do. When I go through a tollbooth, I keep going. I tell the guy, The car behind me is paying for two.

Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.

The world, life and human beings are only an illusion, a phantom, a dream image.

You, sir, are the most phantom-like of all; you are a mere dream

The writer must hew the phantom rock.

Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.

I loved fantasy, but I particularly loved the stories in which somebody got out of where they were and into somewhere better - as in the Chronicles Of Narnia, The Wizard Of Oz, The Phantom Tollbooth, the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.

She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Not much to be perfectly honest! I thought The Phantom Menace was terrible, except for the Pod Race.

XXVIII "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.

Tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead." - Christine, from Gaston Leroux's: The Phantom of the Opera.