Neverwhere Neil Quotes & Sayings

But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe. — Ryu Murakami

I don't like live television, the only tip I have is just pray. — Lana Del Rey

It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible."
I'd gotten the hang of it now.
-Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry) — Mike Carey

What athletes do may not be that healthy, the way we push our bodies completely over the edge to the degrees that are not human. I've said all along that I will not live as long as the average person. — Lance Armstrong

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous. — Neil Gaiman

I write early in the morning. I just wake up whenever I feel awake and I have to be sitting and writing pretty soon after that. If I take too long to think about the impossibility of what I'm trying to, I'll be defeated by it. — Tim Cahill

The marquis de Carabas was not a good man, and he knew himself well enough to be perfectly certain that he was not a brave man. He had long since decided that the world, Above or Below, was a place that wished to be deceived, and, to this end, he had named himself from a lie in a fairy tale, and created himself
his clothes, his manner, his carriage
as a grand joke.
There was a dull pain in his wrists and his feet, and he was finding it harder and harder to breathe. There was nothing more to be gained by feigning unconsciousness, and he raised his head, as best he could, and spat a gob of scarlet blood into Mr. Vandemar's face.
It was a brave thing to do, he thought. And a stupid one. Perhaps they would have let him die quietly, if he had not done that. Now, he had no doubt, they would hurt him more.
And perhaps his death would come the quicker for it. — Neil Gaiman

They always scream when the eyeballs fall out. — Neil Gaiman

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. — William O. Douglas

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation. — Taylor Swift

Richard was thunderstruck: it had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of a mongoose killing a cobra. That was how she moved. That was how she fought. — Neil Gaiman

If God doesn't use people who've failed, who's left for Him to use? — Richard L. Mabry

People must have dignity and identity. If they can't do it peacefully, they will do it defensively. — Joseph Tirella

Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.' — Neil Gaiman

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. — Ann Rutherford

But there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay. — Neil Gaiman