Neil Gaiman Quotes

I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creating the world that we live in.

Neil Gaiman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 10, 1960

Topics

LiveEmpathyWorldBelieveGiving

I was a dogged reporter.

Joanna Coles

ReporterDogged

The reason that I like to use classical myths as models is because African American writers and African American stories are usually understood as occurring in some kind of vacuum - because of slavery.

Jesmyn Ward

SlaveryAmericanKindReasonVacuum

Surely the job of fiction is to actually tell the truth. It's a paradox that's at the heart of any kind of storytelling.

Jeremy Northam

TruthHeartJobKindStorytelling

The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.

Ambrose Burnside

SupportArmyHumanityRulesCountry

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

Aly Raisman

PositiveMyselfBestFocusAngry

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Stefan Hell

KnowledgeScienceFunPeopleThink

In 1989, a lone and still-anonymous Chinese student stood unarmed in front of a Chinese tank and gave the world an enduring image of the determination of China's young to change their nation. He didn't text message the tank or share a video on YouTube.

Tom Brokaw

ChangeDeterminationWorldStudent

Everybody knows everything about all the teams now.

Roger Milla

NowEverythingKnowsEverybodyAbout

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed.

Russell Baker

DeathPeopleOpportunitiesNewTakes

Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Molly Ivins

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Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

Mo Ibrahim

BusinessProfitReactNeedTaxes

I feel sexy when I'm natural. When I hear good music. When I feel sunlight on my skin.

Lotte Verbeek

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