#phantom

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

— Alan Greenspan

#effect #fund #make #need #phantom

Look!You want to see? See! Feast your eyes, glut your soul on my cursed ugliness! Look at Erik's face! Now you know the face of the voice! You were not content to hear me, eh? You wanted to know what I looked like? Oh, you women are so inquisitive! Well, are you satisfied? I'm a good-looking fellow, eh?...When a woman has seen me, as you have, she belongs to me.She loves me forever! I am a kind of Don Juan, you know!...Look at me! I am Don Juan Triumphant! -Erik in The Phantom of the Opera ↗

— Gaston Leroux

#handsome #love #phantom-of-the-opera #ugly #love

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

— Benito Mussolini

#fraud #phantom #socialism

I think they got caught up in how much money they could get from each of the city governments as far as tax rebates. But that stuff works when you make money. It's a little bit phantom money. ↗

— David Neeleman

#bit #caught #city #could #each

But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not. ↗

— Christy Romano

#broadway show #christine #disney #even #female

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#double #error #expression #face #illusion

He holds her with the strength of a million-man army, but with all the tenderness of her heart lying naked in the palms of his hands. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#phantom-universe #science-fiction #scifi #summer-chronicles #time-travel

If you've ever tried ba travel, I wouldn't recommend it-- unless of course you fancy turning into a phantom chicken and rafting uncontrollably through the currents of the Duat. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor #phantom-chicken #humor

The superhero, his underwear bagging at the seat and knees, is just a country boy at heart, tutored to perceive all human action as good or bad, orderly or dynamic, and so doesn't know whether to shit or fly. ↗

— Robert Coover

#movies

She wanted an Angel of Music . . . an angel who would make her believe in herself at last. I'd been the Angel of Doom for the khanum. There was no reason in the world why I could not be the Angel of Music for Christine. I couldn't hope to be a man to her, I couldn't ever be a real, breathing, living man waking at her side and reaching out for her . . . But I could be her angel' -Erik ↗

— Susan Kay

#erik #phantom #susan-kay #music