Neil Gaiman Quotes

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

I was never much into knights and sorcery and that kind of thing. It's not because I was into anything cooler. I certainly wasn't. I played with LEGOs. I played with LEGOs way past when most people played with LEGOs.

I think the secret to what Jim Henson did, ultimately, is that he understood how to cut through to the... I know this sounds corny... but the child inside of you.

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

There are only three things you need to let go of judging, controlling, and being right. Release these three and you will have the whole mind and twinkly heart of a child.

I have no question: It is enough, I know what fixed the station Of star and cloud. And knowing all, I cry. . . .

Poverty's child - he starts to grind the rice, and gazes at the moon.

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?"

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

The FlowersAll the names I know from nurse:Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse,Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames-These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people's trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where, if I were not so tall,I should live for good and all

I might not remember how the sky looked on any given day. I do remember, though, what it was like to be a boy beneath a sky.

When I was little the sky was closer.

When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.

From what we cannot hold the stars are made.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

The innocence which is simply ignorance is not virtue.

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

Life is for living, not living uptight, see ya somewhere up in the sky.

You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.