Neil Gevisser Quotes

Never mock a sin of mine until you have walked a mile in my moccasins ~ Neil Gevisser

Only faith and restraint against the tyrant damns the saint. ~ Neil Gevisser

The cold was bothering me. You'd think I'd welcome it. But it's something to do with being dead, I guess. You don't feel it as cold. You feel it as a sort of nothing, and when you're dead I guess the only thing that you're scared of is nothing. ~ Neil Gaiman

When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation. ~ Neil Cole

Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me. ~ Simon Neil

There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it. ~ Neil Postman

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks. ~ Neil Peart

Everything created has a beginning, Destiny of the Endless ... as everything created has an end. ~ Neil Gaiman

We are analog beings living in a digital world, facing a quantum future. ~ Neil Turok

I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir. ~ Neil Kinnock

Besides confidence and a smile, we learned, the other characteristics of an alpha male were being well-groomed, possessing a sense of humor, connecting with people, and being seen as the social center of a room. ~ Neil Strauss

I loved surrealism and abstract painting, and anything related to those. I always thought painting was the highest form of art. What led me to drawing was seeing so much self-important, pretentious, conceptual-type art in university. I wanted to reject that by making quick, fun art. ~ Neil Farber

I'll swap you my dad," I said.
"Oh-oh," said my little sister. ~ Neil Gaiman

The whole problem with news on television comes down to this: all the words uttered in an hour of news coverage could be printed on a page of a newspaper. And the world cannot be understood in one page. ~ Neil Postman

Time, tide and cocktail hour wait, as it were, for no man. ~ Neil Gaiman

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil. ~ Neil MacGregor

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer. ~ Neil Gaiman

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away. ~ Neil Young

Loki makes the world interesting but less safe. ~ Neil Gaiman

Wrote my book in many places - houses in Florida, and in a cabin on a Wisconsin lake, and in a hotel room in Las Vegas. I ~ Neil Gaiman

Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I mean, what does it mean to you? In your head?
Dream: Well, I use it to refer that area of existence over which I exert a certain amount of control or influence. In my case, the realm and action of dreaming.
Delirium: Hump. It's more than that. The things we do make echoes. S'pose, f'rinstance, you stop on a street corner and admire a brilliant fork of lightning
ZAP! Well for ages after people and things will stop on that very same corner, stare up at the sky. They wouldn't even know what they were looking for. Some of them might see a ghost bolt of lightning in the street. Some of them might even be killed by it. Our existence deforms the universe. THAT'S responsibility. ~ Neil Gaiman

A book is an attempt to make through permanent and to contribute to the great conversation conducted by authors of the past. [ ... ] The telegraph is suited only to the flashing of messages, each to be quickly replaced by a more up-to-date message. Facts push other facts into and then out of consciousness at speeds that neither permit nor require evaluation. (70) ~ Neil Postman

We weren't arguing," said the bear. "Because we can't talk." Then it said, "Oops. ~ Neil Gaiman

The American people, Neil, are sick and tired of excuses. They are sick and tired of the blame game. And they're sick and tired of the deception coming from this president and this administration. This is why I believe that I am doing so well in the polls. ~ Herman Cain

It's my duty to enlighten people. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Most people think it's the other way around: that time is going faster and we're doing less. But really time seems to be going faster because we're cramming so much into it. ~ Neil Young

Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment. ~ Neil Gaiman

Ever since the Industrial Revolution, investments in science and technology have proved to be reliable engines of economic growth. If homegrown interest in those fields is not regenerated soon, the comfortable lifestyle to which Americans have become accustomed will draw to a rapid close. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I used to think that a good relationship meant always getting along. But the secret, I realize, is that when one person shuts down or throws a fit, the other needs to stay in the adult ego state. If both people descend to the wounded child or adapted adolescent, that's when all forces of relationship drama and destruction are unleashed. ~ Neil Strauss

He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and she called him an idiot, and he declared that it was the finest thing that ever a man had been called. ~ Neil Gaiman

She's a very charismatic character, and she holds the whole play together. ~ Neil Tennant

Is it me, or is the government more concerned about its own tax headaches, than your tax headaches? ~ Neil Cavuto

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals. ~ Neil Gaiman

Black and white, good and evil, is just a way to simplify life and make it easier for people to deal with. People love it too; that's why so many people go to church on a Sunday. ~ Neil Walker

Why waste yourself doing something pointless, when you can spend your life being productive in your own eyes? ~ Neil Walker

I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

How do you know?" She shrugged. "Once you've been around for a bit, you get to know stuff." I kicked a stone. "By 'a bit' do you mean 'a really long time'?" She nodded. "How old are you, really?" I asked. "Eleven." I thought for a bit. Then I asked, "How long have you been eleven for?" She smiled at me. ~ Neil Gaiman

Danny and the Memories was the band at the root of Crazy Horse. They were a vocal group with Danny Whitten, Ralphie, Billy, and a guy named Ben Rocco. When I recently saw their old video of "Land of a Thousand Dances" on You-Tube, I realized that is is truly the shit. You know, I looked at it maybe twenty times in a row. Even though Danny was amazing and he held the Horse together in the early days, I did not know how great Danny was until I saw this! The moves! What an amazing dancer he was. His presence on that performance is elevating! He is gone, and no one can change that. We will never see and hear where he was going. I am telling you, the world missed one of the greatest when Danny and the Memories did not have a NUMBER ONE smash record back in the day. They were so musical, with great harmonies, and Danny was a total knockout! I am so moved by this that it could make me cry at any time. This is one of those many times when words can't describe the music.

Danny and the Memories eventually transformed into the Rockets; they were playing in this old house in Laurel Canyon, and I somehow connected with them while Buffalo Springfield was at the Whiskey. We had a lot of pots jams in the house. Later on I saw Danny and the guys at somebody's house in Topanga. After that I asked if Danny, Billy, and Ralphie would play on a record with me. We did one day, practicing in my Topanga house, and it sounded great. I named the band Crazy Horse and away we went. The Rockets ~ Neil Young

You can twist perception
reality wont budge
you can raise objection
I won2t be judge and jury ~ Neil Peart

Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you. ~ Neil Young

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together. ~ Neil Gaiman

The world was bright and strange and he was in the middle of it. ~ Neil Gaiman

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song. ~ Neil Gaiman

I will dream if I want to, I said, and my death is my own affair. ~ Neil Gaiman

Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curse of a god is an evil thing.
But I can hurt him. And I will.
And besides ...
Have you never wondered, little bird, what it must be like to see the world through the eyes of a god? ~ Neil Gaiman

The will of God will never lead you where the grace of God cannot keep you. I ~ Neil T. Anderson

Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct. ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby. ~ Neil Strauss