“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Magic" is simply a way of talking to the universe in a way that it cannot ignore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Hope when you've got nothing else, he once told us. But if you´ve got anything else, then for Heaven's sake, Do it!”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn’t a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the cosmos, from the long, lazy radio waves we communicate with through microwaves that we cook with all the way up to X-rays and gamma rays, which pack enough punch into their wavelengths to outshine an entire galaxy. All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors. It’s like being invited to a royal banquet and then only being allowed to pick the crumbs off one plate.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“It's good to know where you are, but it's better to know where you're going.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“What good is a vocabulary that isn't used?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“No problem,” I said with all the confidence of a lemming who thinks he’s headed for a nice day at the seashore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Doesn't matter. You'll pick up what you need to know--cultural osmosis.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sympatizuji s bolestí jeho rozhodování. A někteří muži vypadají s vousy dobře," četl v mém obličeji otázku a pokračoval: "Takže nikdy nemusí stát proti sobě v zrcadle, když se holí.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“If we just told the story simply and easily, then even a television executive would be able to understand it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Supongo que las habrá más guapas, más listas o mejores en el instituto de Greenville, pero nunca me he molestado en mirarlas. Por lo que a mí respecta, Rowena es la única chica que existe; aunque, tras dos años de esfuerzos, todavía no he logrado convencerla de que soy algo más que un extra de segunda en la película de su vida.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.'
'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
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“I'm not sure who faked their orgasm first, but thankfully it was over rather quickly.”
― Donald Jans, quote from Freaks I've Met
“If Jesus has taught me anything, though, it's that sometimes you can really want to know somebody and it takes them forever to want to know you back.”
― Bob Goff, quote from Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man; but bad literature may tell us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture. The more dishonest a book is as a book the more honest it is as a public document. A sincere novel exhibits the simplicity of one particular man; an insincere novel exhibits the simplicity of mankind. The pedantic decisions and definable readjustments of man may be found in scrolls and statute books and scriptures; but men's basic assumptions and everlasting energies are to be found in penny dreadfuls and halfpenny novelettes. Thus a man, like many men of real culture in our day, might learn from good literature nothing except the power to appreciate good literature. But from bad literature he might learn to govern empires and look over the map of mankind.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from Heretics
“A lie will lead to million lies and will leave you for sure. But a truth will always stood by your side.”
― quote from We Were Three
“until they bump into an obstacle that stymies them. If you encounter a problem with no immediate solution, your response to that situation will take you either up or down. You can lash out at the difficulty, resenting it and feeling sorry for yourself. This will take you down into a pit of self-pity. Alternatively, the problem can be a ladder, enabling you to climb up and see your life from My perspective.”
― quote from Jesus Calling: Enjoying Peace in His Presence
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