logo

Quotes About Ghastly

And now the tiresome chirping of a cricket that no human ingenuity could locate, began. Next the ghastly ticking of a death-watch in the wall at the bed's head made Tom shudder - it meant that somebody's days were numbered.
~ Mark Twain
The trap had a ghastly perfection
~ Stephen King
I am really proud of where me and Ghastly's track 'Crank It' ended up. It was our first music video and big label release. It was such a dope experience working with OWSLA on that record.
~ Mija
But while we can never predict where events will take us or the unavoidable bills we will have to pay as a consequence, we must confront the ghastly truth of Labour's legacy.
~ Liam Fox
The ghastly facade of the Basilica loomed over them. Bronze angles above the doors troubled Romulan; as they had always troubled him. He did not understand why; perhaps he had heeded, unaware, some frightening resemblance to himself.
~ Tanith Lee
Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.
~ Tom Shales
I attended to all the ghastly formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted—or blessed—with something of his own obsequious suavity.
~ Bram Stoker
To one thing I have made up my mind. If we find out that Mina must be a vampire in the end, then she shall not go into that unknown and terrible land alone. I suppose it is thus that in old times one vampire meant many. Just as their hideous bodies could only rest in sacred earth, so the holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks.
~ Bram Stoker
Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.
~ Bryce Courtenay
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.
~ Ilona Andrews
I dreamed about the nature of man, and about a courteous, reasonable, and respectable community of men - while the ghastly bloody feast went on in the temple behind them. Were they courteous and charming to one another, those sunny folk, out of silent regard for that horror?
~ Thomas Mann
All of a sudden, a great crash sounded, and even the calm, collected Peter flinched at the noise. The closet door flew open and two small children, a girl and boy, burst out into the room. They were a ghastly sight, even to Peter's cynical eyes: the little girl had no left arm, the boy had been bleeding from a great wound in his side. Peter felt a touch of sympathy for the pathetic creatures, but then he reminded himself—they were dead!
~ George A. Romero
I would like to do a horror film with zombies!
~ Liza Soberano
It was true that the ghastly sounds I had heard through the fog had greatly upset me but far worse was what emanated from and surrounded these things and arose to unsteady me, an atmosphere, a force - I do not exactly know what to call it - of evil and uncleanness, of terror and suffering, of malevolence and bitter anger
~ Susan Hill
Clowns—feh! All that ghastly, forced gaiety, worse than New Year's Eve.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.
~ Anthony Lewis
According to an account in Anecdotes of the Telegraph, when his request was questioned, the man ran off, grinning a horrible, ghastly smile.
~ Tom Standage
May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.
~ James Russell Lowell
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.
~ Mark Gatiss
Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.
~ Christopher Durang
When one comes to the ultra-modern profession of advertising, responded Schliemann—the science of persuading people to buy what they do not want—he is in the very center of the ghastly charnel house of capitalist destructiveness
~ Upton Sinclair
There's a beast in me. I destroy those I cannot control. I must be certain that those close to me share my identical interests. I'm benevolent within that construction. I'm ghastly outside of it.
~ James Ellroy
I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.
~ Cullen Bunn
had passed from its surface and this earth's together. Haunted in a most ghastly manner that abominable place would have been, if the glass could ever have rendered back its reflections, as the ocean is one day to give up its dead. Some passing thought of the infamy and disgrace for which it had been reserved, may have struck the prisoner's mind. Be that as it may, a change in his position
~ Charles Dickens