Neil Gaiman Quotes

Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.

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• A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • You
  • Value
  • Painting

• Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Age
  • Need
  • Solidarity

• As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Mom

• I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.

  

  Dakota Goyo
  • Life
  • School
  • Kid

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • May
  • Everything
  • Details

• I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Love
  • Artist

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I grew up in the era of Britney Spears, where artists had songs written for them, and you got up and sang them. That's how I always thought it was.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • You
  • Thought

• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Being
  • Thing

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • People
  • Change
  • Thought

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Control
  • Happiness
  • Beyond

• The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Community
  • Stereotypes

• This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Job
  • Friends
  • Deep

• Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Why
  • You
  • Thought

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Book
  • Democratic
  • Historical Person

• A perfectly fitted sheath dress that can take you from day to night is something that every woman should have in her closet. You can't go wrong with black, but a little bit of color is nice. I love a lot of color, personally. You can accessorize a sheath dress. Look at how Michelle Obama accessorizes clothes to make them her own.

  

  Jason Wu
  • Night
  • Black
  • Nice

• It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

  

  Doris Lessing
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Night

• Like you and your woman ain't gettin' along and you're in love. You can't sleep at nights. Your mind is on her - on whatever. You know, that's the blues. You can't hug that money at night. You can't kiss it.

  

  John Lee Hooker
  • Mind
  • Money
  • Night

• Off to bed. If squirrels take over in the night, I, for one, welcome our new bushy-tailed scampering overlords, & I know where the nuts are.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Night