Top 268 Phantom Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 writer must hew the phantom rock.

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

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

What is Fortune, what is Fame? Futile gold and phantom name- Riches buried in a cave, Glory written on a grave.

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Perhaps living souls had greater phantom powers than the dead.

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

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

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

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

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

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

When Daniel Boone goes by at night The phantom deer arise And all lost, wild America Is burning in their eyes.

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

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

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

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

The plot of my 'Phantom' is pretty much mine. It's based on the Gaston Leroux book - I've taken a lot of liberties with it.

I had always been a fan of Nas, but I never met him. This is the one guy in the industry who's, like, the phantom rapper.

King Kong, Count Dracula, and the Phantom of the Opera are just looking for love, like the rest of us.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I held in my hands the remains of Gunther, I had a strong feeling, like a phantom pain of an amputee.

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.

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.

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.

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

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