Neil Gaiman Quotes

I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.

Neil Gaiman

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• It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Mean
  • Better
  • Express

• It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Belief
  • Strength

• Life is made up of marble and mud.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mud

• At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Time
  • Art
  • Logic

• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Reading
  • Listening
  • Gift

• The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

  

  Oswald Spengler
  • Lies
  • Organization
  • Victory

• When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.

  

  Gary Dourdan
  • Books
  • Alien
  • Resurrection

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • New
  • Year
  • Tiger

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Know
  • Young
  • Fame

• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Up
  • Flying
  • Stand

• I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stupid
  • Actions
  • Suffer

• Entrepreneurial Philanthropy is not just a philosophy or a dream. It is a promise that philanthropy is at its best when it is founded on entrepreneurial zest and agility.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Philosophy

• I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Want
  • Decisions
  • Option

• I know people who prepare their roles in such a way that they technically look ahead and memorize their gestures, and then they stick to it. Those that are technically proficient enough can make it seem natural, but they do that and don't really take in what other people are doing.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Know
  • Doing

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Sound
  • Silly
  • Obsessed

• Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy.

  

  Drake
  • Business
  • Nice

• They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

  

  Ernest Dowson
  • Hate
  • Desire
  • Laughter

• What really amazed me was when I sent a suit out for cleaning, forgetting that $700 was in the pocket. They sent the suit back to me. If that happened in New York, both money and suit would be gone.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Money
  • Forgetting
  • Suit

• I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Mind
  • Nice
  • Desire