Neil Gaiman Quotes

There are stark, stark contrasts between myself and Jack Conway.

Steve is very quiet, even shy. I am very gregarious. So, opposites.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.

They didn't get along. Gehrig thought Ruth was a big-mouth, and Ruth thought Gehrig was cheap. They were both right.

I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.

Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!

I usually wear a lot of really thin gold bands and small studs. Nothing too big.

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

It's the details that make people distinct, that make them individuals.

I think I just have one of those faces that can look like lots of different people.

In a lot of ways, their journeys are opposite of each other's: Aang was a peace-loving monk, through and through, whereas Korra is a dyed in the wool fighter.

Siblings are often very opposite.

Simple jewelry is best - bigger pieces get in the way when I'm baking.

The difference between my sister and I is that she is an extreme extrovert. She is right up front and tells you what she feels. I'm the quiet nobody-knows-me type.

While I've been well-known for trying to keep my fictional characters individual in their looks, it's an even greater challenge not only to make them individual but also identifiable.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with a few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher. Physically it is extraordinarily arduous, and morally it is killing...You get your happiness where you can. You reach a point where you're at the bottom of hell, yet you have your arms crossed and a smile on your face, and you feel you're the luckiest person on earth. Why? Because at your feet you have a tiny dead fish

All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.

If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics.

Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day. They can completely change the look of an outfit, and women like the idea of having a wardrobe that's versatile. For instance, a strong piece of jewelry can make a simple outfit look elegant.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

India has the largest number of hungry people. Yet it's an outcome of precisely the same mechanism. It's the control of agriculture that drives down the price it paid for food that it buys from farmers, who are the poorest people. Then you're paying very little for food. You're underpaying the poorest people in any society. Then they're marketing to us the things that are most profitable to them. And those are the things that are packaged and processed and what-have-you. That means you have the simple thing of the explosion of obesity and hunger as a result of capitalism in our food system.

There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.

I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.

Eating is never so simple as hunger.