Neil Gaiman Quotes

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

Everyone always noticed Ashley. She was like a flashing neon sign for anyone with an ounce of testosterone.

The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about being noticed and not discreet.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I dyed my hair this crazy red to bid for attention. It has become a trademark, and I've got to keep it this way.

My hair is crazy, so it's really easy to notice me in public.

For someone my size, it's difficult to be inconspicuous.

If something catches your attention, it's probably going to catch the attention of others, too.

Red has always been my color, because red stands out.

My voice gon' stick out like a turd in a punch bowl.

I think originality is something that's important and catches people's eye.

Every woman has to have something which singles her out, which catches the eyes, which makes her the center of attention. I am going to be french.

How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.

It is always better to be an original than an imitation.

You are designed by God not to blend in, but to stand out

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary of the world, am I required to believe that the weak and wicked king of an obscure and barbarous nation, a murderer, a traitor and a tyrant, was the man after God's own heart?

When you shake you ass, they notice fast. And some mistakes were built to last.

You have to be the first, best or different.

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”

You don't have to believe that there was a King Arthur to get the significance of those stories, but Christians say we have to believe there was a Christ, or the miracles don't make sense.

A man follows the path laid out for him. He does his duty to God and his King. He does what he must do, not what pleases him. God's truth, boy, what kind of world would this be if every man did what pleased him alone? Who would plough the fields and reap the harvest, if every man had the right to say, 'I don't want to do that.' In this world there is a place for every man, but every man must know his place.

...I believe in a God of scandalous grace. I have pledged allegiance to a King who loved evildoers so much he died for them, teaching us that there is something worth dying for but nothing worth killing for.

One must believe neither the people of the palace, who ordinarily measure the power of the king by the shape of his crown, which, being round, has no end, nor those who, in the excesses of an indiscreet zeal, proclaim themselves openly as partisans of Rome.

I'm one in what I do and what I say and what I believe.