Aversion Quote by Neil Gaiman Download Open image “I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.” — Neil Gaiman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Aversion Found Hardy Mental health Therapy Thomas Hardy
My mother was a children's librarian, and I was raised on lots of English children's literature. It gave me this weird idea that I… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
A lot of my therapy is with horses. I did a lot equine therapy, which at first - an Englishman trying to talk to… — Matty Healy Copy Share Image
Word lessons, in particular the wouldst couldst shouldst have loved kind, were kept up, with much warlike thrashing, until I had committed the whole… — John Muir Copy Share Image
My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English. — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The more you look back into English history, the more you are forced to the conclusion that alongside civility and the deeply held convictions… — Anna Pavlova Copy Share Image
I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It was very lucky for me as a writer that I studied the physical sciences rather than English. I wrote for my own amusement.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to people speaking broken English. I probably picked that up. And I probably speak English almost as a second language. — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
I love American English, not least because a lot of it was ours to begin with. Indeed, many Americanisms can be found in the… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the greatest inhibitions to the development of human potential is the aversion to effective practice. — Douglas B. Reeves Copy Share Image
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
The unattractive thing about chauvinism is not so much the aversion to other nations as the love of one's own. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that… — Michael Arrington Copy Share Image
Some people have a very strange idea that material success does not coincide harmoniously with self-realization, which is absurd. The aversion to material success,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Usually I just let my songs do the talking. As a matter of fact I have long had an aversion to celebrities endorsing politics,… — John Fogerty Copy Share Image
Once we're willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
