Neil Gaiman Quotes

It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.

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• Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Know
  • Simple
  • Name

• If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • You
  • Audience
  • Books

• I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Girl
  • Never
  • Wedding

• The old movie stars like Bogart, James Cagney, Jimmy Stewart, they weren't this gorgeous, striking six-foot man who's rippled with muscles.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Movie
  • Man
  • Stars

• It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Up
  • Danger
  • Protection

• I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Respect
  • Tennis
  • Through

• I like excess. And giant M&M's.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Like
  • Excess
  • Giant

• Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Protect
  • Wants

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• My fans are my family, because they understand me and I understand them.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Me
  • Understand

• I've learned to be pragmatic, but I don't sacrifice my principles, my values.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Sacrifice
  • Values
  • Pragmatic

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Character
  • Think
  • Angry

• In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Music
  • Home

• Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can't really understand why it doesn't obsess everyone - I think it does really, I'm just a little more out about it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Why
  • Think
  • Death

• It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • People
  • Religious

• Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Up
  • Focus

• Wretched un-idea'd girls.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Psychologically, the internet is very marxist. Everyone with a modem has access to the same information, so we all get jammed into a technological middle class.

  

  Chuck Klosterman

• Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Human

• My love for you is not plain But it does not add up I love you not Yes, I have never revealed it to anyone Nor will I ever do so You are no exception either Yes, I will keep my words to me But, I have no control over my eyes That might blab out And lead you to take My love is for you only Though I'm not to say so.

  

  Akram Khan
  • Love
  • Control
  • Exception

• We are bombarded with reasons to stay inside: we're afraid of mosquitoes because of West Nile and grass because of pesticides and sun because of cancer and sunscreen because of vitamin-D deficiency.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Sun
  • Cancer
  • Inside

• I try to stay as private as possible; I know that's difficult, especially playing here in New York, but I make an attempt at it.

  

  Derek Jeter

• It was England in the autumn; the sun was, by definition, something that only happened when it wasn't cloudy or raining.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Sun
  • Autumn