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First Quotes by Neil Gaiman
- I was a reader. I loved reading. Reading things gave me pleasure. I was very good at most subjects in school, not because I had…
- Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
- The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.
- 'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.
- I don't know if any single book made me want to write. C.S. Lewis was the first writer to make me aware that somebody was…
- In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust…
- So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment…
- The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he tells stories,' was…
- It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire mesh moved from interesting to terrifying.…
- There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream…
- He told me not to seek revenge, but to seek the Buddha,' said the fox spirit, sadly. 'Wise counsel,' said the fox of dreams. 'Vegeance…
- When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs…
- You know what my mum once said?’ said Rosie… ‘She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they…
- The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than…
- There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads…
- On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and…
- They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart…
- I think I could be a perfectly decent cat. I've been around cats long enough to know what the rules of being a cat are.…
- Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a…
- Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl…
- We'll win, of course," he said. "You don't want that," said the demon. "Why not, pray?“ “Listen," said Crowley desperately, "how many musicians do you…
- In a world where people die every day, I think the important thing to remember is that for each moment of sorrow we get when…
- That doesn't happen," she explained. "Stars fall. They don't go back up again." "You could be the first," he told her.
- There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven candles on it…
- For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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- Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not. — Richard Armour
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong