Neil Gaiman Quotes

love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.

Little movements of communities of ordinary radicals are committed to doing small things with great love.

Wine heightens indifference into love, love into jealousy, and jealousy into madness. It often turns the good-natured man into an idiot, and the choleric into an assassin. It gives bitterness to resentment, it makes vanity insupportable, and displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

I only please myself. I figure I'm just one of many people. I'm not that different from anybody else and I don't have great language - I'm very ordinary.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.

love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides.

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence.

Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love.

With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains...

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing in life, really. And I think we are all striving for it in different ways. I also believe very, very strongly that everybody is the hero/heroine of his/her own life. I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

There is only laughing across the land as the car moves you along, on your way someplace with love in the car.

To think of him in the middle of the day lifts me out of ordinary living.

Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Twitter is the people’s tool, the tool of the ordinary people, people who have no other resources.

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

She squeezed my hand, and I drew a shaky breath, marveling at the fact that while on an ordinary leave in an ordinary place, I'd somehow fallen in love with an extraordinary girl named Savannaah Lynn Curtis.

You could only draw conclusions about my personal sexual politics if you proceed from the assumption that I was presenting the characters as the way it is and the way it ought to be. But both are clearly defined as deranged – it’s love among the mad. He’s a psycopath, so is she. She’s prepared to throw him to the dogs until he works out the code, he’s prepared to let her nearly get executed. They’re not really going to buy a house and a Volvo together. I’m not saying this is how people should date!

Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.