Where trial-court and appeals-court nominees were once routinely confirmed on voice vote, they are now routinely subjected to ideological litmus tests, filibusters, and vicious interest-group attacks.
Neil Gorsuch
Related Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely... BENJAMIN SPOCK Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely... BENJAMIN SPOCK We need clarification regarding the death penalty. It's different in many states... It's a b... PAM BONDI The main opposition to Judge Gorsuch's confirmation comes from a handful of Democratic Senators ... THOM TILLIS These Supreme Court nominees are probably the most visible positions that a Democratic politician is... CALVIN JILLSON The fairest and most democratic process in terms of Supreme Court nominees is let the American peopl... RON JOHNSON It's surprising that they took 17 pages to respond to our two-paragraph request for a stay from the ... JIM CULLINAN The case was reversed on appeal. She's gotten a new trial. She's gained the relief she's entitled to... ALAN CURRY His long track record as a federal appeals court judge shows that he has indeed put his personal vie... JOHN CORNYN We now have five Catholics on the Supreme Court. Must they vote to overturn Roe v. Wade? TIM RUSSERT CBS exhausted the Texas courts. They went from the trial court to the intermediate court to the high... FLOYD ABRAMS The most disturbing thing is that information that was once routinely accessible without a FOIA, now... ELIZABETH BLUEMINK She doesn't have anything like the qualifications of recent nominees. They were exceptionally qualif... CASS SUNSTEIN It is the skeleton in Microsoft's closet. We routinely find them. STEVE MANZUIK We are confident that we will have it reversed. We have met every evidentiary requirement that the C... GERALD RICHMAN I think the court considered that the trial will attract foreign journalists, so it is better that t... ISMAEL KHAN The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of... PAT BUCHANAN In the first trial, wrong evidence went to the jury. It should not have, as confirmed by the court o... RICHARD AUGER resist, if not refuse to confirm, Supreme Court nominees who refuse to answer questions on fundament... ARLEN SPECTER They have not agreed to provide written assurances they will comply with Immigration and Naturalizat... CAROLE FLORMAN In its (earlier) brief to the court of appeals, TED OLSON Deputies are routinely working 18-hour shifts and working on days off. Burnout is a serious concern, BOB BROOKS War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put... NAWAL EL SAADAWI We were very inconsistent on the court and off the court, ANDREW WILSON We were trying to get them in a full-court game where they couldn't run a half court offense and get... DAN SCHWIETERMAN The trial court has already said it's a good-faith mistake. I think the Court of Appeals is not goin... GERALD TREECE The Court of Criminal Appeals is widely considered to be one of the most conservative appellate cour... BRIAN WICE I routinely make trips to China and India where we have offices to continue to maintain the linkages... DOUGLAS LEONE We'll be asking to set aside the Court of Appeals decision. GEORGE WASHINGTON School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of c... MIKE GALLAGHER That does happen quite routinely. CHARLENE ZETTEL There has never been a time in human history where so many people routinely carry recording and surv... STEVEN MAGEE We're pleased that the court concluded that they had no jurisdiction to overturn the trial judge's r... JOHN FITZGIBBONS We will try to get that evidence before the Court of Appeals. DONOVAN CAMPBELL It helped out my vision. It has helped out making reads that I have to make on the court and where o... JOE CHAPMAN The opinion of the court of appeals invalidating Ohio's discriminatory voting technology is exceptio... LAUGHLIN MCDONALD I would think this is a long shot, trying to get the Court of Appeals to stop this trial. The defens... GERALD TREECE The personal attacks and the attacks on the group are inappropriate. LISA SAMPSON Mentally retarded street youth are seen as a scourge to society. They are routinely rounded up and l... CHRISTOPHER NUGENT We would like finality. We believe that we be will successful at the Supreme Court, once it gets the... DONNA NEWMAN We would like finality. We believe that we be will successful at the Supreme Court, once it gets the... JOSE PADILLA The Court of Appeals is more appropriate from a mechanical standpoint. BOB HERBOLD During the Obama years, the Republicans have done an unprecedented amount of stonewalling on cabinet... GAIL COLLINS I think it's important to adhere to that ... if these questions come before me, either on the court ... JOHN ROBERTS The defendants are going to have to show a real problem before the Court of Appeals is going to thro... RONALD ALLEN A Colombian court issued its verdict that confirmed what we believed from the start: that they were ... FRANCISCO SANTOS We can routinely do sub-30nm spacing. ROBERT ALLEN It doesn't decide the major appeal before the D.C. Court of Appeals, HARVEY SAFERSTEIN The races for the N.C. Supreme Court and N.C. Court of Appeals are the only statewide contests on th... CHRIS HEAGARTY It helps when you have a group of girls that can play together and communicate on and off the court.... LASHEENA BROWN I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and... PATRICIA MILLETT The governments weaponize toxins that the masses are routinely exposed to, and then denies the known... STEVEN MAGEE We all went through hell to get in here, and they investigate us routinely. That is what catches the... MANUEL GARCIA in the court of public opinion that he, and not Neil Bush, is the father of his son. ROBERT ANDREWS Most lawyers aren't trial lawyers. Most lawyers, even trial lawyers, don't get their problem... JANET RENO Today, the Supreme Court affirms (the trial courts') findings. CRAIG WATERS Off the court, it seemed like they were together, like they got along. But on the court it was a dif... GINA CASTELLI This verdict should not stand. There are at least five major issues that we will raise in the court ... WALTER DELLINGER President Obama had two Supreme Court nominees in his first term. There was no filibuster against th... MITCH MCCONNELL The Congress has pre-supposed some situation where it is appropriate to bypass the court of appeals,... KEVIN ARQUIT We routinely look at any unusual trading activity. CAROL KENNEDY Our investigation found evidence that juveniles were routinely hit, shoved and slapped by staff, tha... ALEX ACOSTA Each time they get on the court now, they get better and better. They're playing really well. BUDD BOOTH It definitely does make things more complicated. We know everything about each other. But once you g... DAVID FERRER The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known an... AL GORE Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, an... ELEANOR SMEAL They are not today one of the accounts that we routinely go up against. We occasionally bump into th... BILL KRENIK Perhaps the 2005 filibuster wars depleted interest group war chests in advance of the recent nominat... BERT BRANDENBURG Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences t... GARY BAUER Students were playing on the court with black sole shoes or shoes that marked the court. When you do... MICHAEL EDWARDS We have dozens and dozens and dozens of judicial nominees up there waiting and we have a court syste... JOE LOCKHART We don't expect our operations to be impacted. We're operating routinely. JACQUIE YOUNG The appeals court may say it is only talking about Windows 95 in its interpretation of the consent d... WILLIAM KOVACIC During my five years on Mauna Kea, workers routinely displayed the symptoms of Cerebral Hypoxia STEVEN MAGEE Stephanie and (Cristina) were both struggling earlier with illness. But they are great friends which... JAN BROGAN [W]e admire the work of the Eanes Education Foundation and the significant value they bring to our c... JEFF NASH The U.S. Supreme Court is the highest court of the land. We do not ignore what they tell us. The cou... CRAIG WATERS They have blinders on. They want a state court to decide their case, and they can't have a state cou... HOWARD DICKSTEIN I routinely use my blue sky "Device" and it works very well for me. STEVEN MAGEE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Civilians are arrested every single day - including innocent ones - and they must wait until their d... AL SHARPTON We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the US court of appe... MALVINDER SINGH I'm very easy-going off court, but I really want to win once I'm walking on to the court. ANA IVANOVIC The WHO has confirmed that eating cooked chicken is safe. The cooking temperature for poultry meat s... ARVIND MEDIRATTA Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set. GENE TIERNEY routinely co-located with units assigned a direct combat mission. FRANCIS HARVEY It's never been before the court before, and will be before the court now. GENE STILP We will do an in-house service. If they will get their employees together, we'll go in and address t... CHARLES STEPHENS Given the Court of Appeals decision, this is a fair resolution for the American taxpayer. DAVID OGDEN I think the precedent the Court of Appeals has set here is a dangerous precedent. GUTHRIE TRUE Withdrawal of the application at the hearing was designed to make sure my client gets a full and fai... FRANCIS P. LINNUS We are entitled to an impartial panel to vote on our application. A great deal of additional evidenc... KEVIN KELLY Democratic politicians, liberal activists and liberal news outlets routinely deploy incendiary rheto... GARY BAUER The court papers now contradict that. They say he was invited on it. BRIAN WALSH We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the U.S. Court of Ap... MALVINDER M. SINGH They have been playing well at home this year, and I think home court advantage will help them, but ... DAVE CALLOWAY We will probably ask the court to postpone hearings to review the documents and thoroughly prepare f... ANDREI MIRONOV I paid for my own ticket, ... We have not routinely gone places and done things. JAMES CROSBY Law enforcement ignoring crimes reported to them by the public is an illegal activity that they rout... STEVEN MAGEE I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou... PATRICIA MILLETT
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I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the i... NEIL GORSUCH Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which ... NEIL GORSUCH Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the who... NEIL GORSUCH Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court's decisions seem to assure... NEIL GORSUCH In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the... NEIL GORSUCH During the New Deal, liberals recognized that the ballot box and elected branches are generally the ... NEIL GORSUCH American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than e... NEIL GORSUCH We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years... NEIL GORSUCH Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpr... NEIL GORSUCH For the last decade, I've worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six Western states, se... NEIL GORSUCH Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I a... NEIL GORSUCH We seek to protect and preserve life for life's own sake in everything from our most fundamental... NEIL GORSUCH Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it ... NEIL GORSUCH It would be a very good thing for all involved - the country, an independent judiciary, and the Left... NEIL GORSUCH All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private per... NEIL GORSUCH Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated. NEIL GORSUCH I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new ... NEIL GORSUCH Though the critics are loud and the temptations to join them may be many, mark me down too as a beli... NEIL GORSUCH Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just... NEIL GORSUCH A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he p... NEIL GORSUCH I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, a... NEIL GORSUCH I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that ... NEIL KINNOCK I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. VINCE NEIL I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire aft... VINCE NEIL With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless. VINCE NEIL I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with t... VINCE NEIL I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own i... VINCE NEIL Everybody has forgotten about showmanship. People don't look like rock stars any more. They just... VINCE NEIL Man, I have had so much plastic surgery, I don't even recognize myself, sometimes. If I catch a ... VINCE NEIL What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal... NEIL PEART For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the... NEIL MACGREGOR TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts... NEIL POSTMAN I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This... NEIL YOUNG The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vis... NEIL GAIMAN When you're on a merry-go-round, you miss a lot of the scenery. NEIL DIAMOND I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me... NEIL YOUNG I didn't really know what I was doing when I started. I just started writing songs. After two so... NEIL YOUNG Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you'... NEIL YOUNG I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else. NEIL YOUNG I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life. NEIL YOUNG I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master. NEIL YOUNG When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you&... NEIL YOUNG Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG One new feature or fresh take can change everything. NEIL YOUNG To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a s... NEIL YOUNG The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the un... NEIL YOUNG The thing about my music is, there really is no point. NEIL YOUNG We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets... NEIL YOUNG I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time. NEIL YOUNG When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in t... NEIL YOUNG Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done. NEIL YOUNG Rock and roll is here to stay. NEIL YOUNG Earth is a flower and it's pollinating. NEIL YOUNG As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points ... NEIL YOUNG It's better to burn out, than to fade away. NEIL YOUNG Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that... NEIL ARMSTRONG I set out to do a horror film with 'Dog Soldiers,' and what I came out with at the end of th... NEIL MARSHALL I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we ... NEIL ARMSTRONG People love conspiracy theories. NEIL ARMSTRONG It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curv... NEIL ARMSTRONG As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the ... NEIL ARMSTRONG In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. NEIL ARMSTRONG I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of min... NEIL ARMSTRONG I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily... NEIL ARMSTRONG NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and ac... NEIL ARMSTRONG I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. NEIL ARMSTRONG Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying. NEIL ARMSTRONG I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer. NEIL ARMSTRONG The Eagle has landed. NEIL ARMSTRONG Geologists have a saying - rocks remember. NEIL ARMSTRONG When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and... NEIL GAIMAN When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which mean... NEIL GAIMAN They started the meeting out by saying, "Everybody please take your seats" I was halfway back t... NEIL LECKMAN There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradis... NEIL GAIMAN I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my s... NEIL CROSS For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ... NEIL TENNANT In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think. NEIL INNES The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before. NEIL GAIMAN The British Museum was founded with a civic purpose: to allow the citizen, through reasoned inquiry ... NEIL MACGREGOR A collection that embraces the whole world allows you to consider the whole world. That is what an i... NEIL MACGREGOR Roman history was kind of unavoidable where I was growing up. It was everywhere - all the place name... NEIL MARSHALL All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you c... NEIL GAIMAN Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure wh... NEIL GAIMAN I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia. NEIL MORRISSEY Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break... NEIL GAIMAN Words save our lives, sometimes. NEIL GAIMAN Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language. NEIL STRAUSS When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all ... NEIL GAIMAN Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? NEIL GAIMAN I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage. NEIL GAIMAN Our politics, religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial... NEIL POSTMAN I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and ca... NEIL GAIMAN That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind NEIL ARMSTRONG Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the insid... NEIL GAIMAN Better to burn out than rust out. NEIL YOUNG Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count. NEIL SIMON These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for... NEIL SHEEHAN Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertaria... NEIL PEART Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon ... NEIL GAIMAN I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do,... NEIL GAIMAN I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It w... NEIL GAIMAN Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a mo... NEIL GAIMAN Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets. NEIL GAIMAN We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing Afric... NEIL GAIMAN What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?' 'Cats don't have names,'... NEIL GAIMAN There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they we... NEIL GAIMAN Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. NEIL GAIMAN That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed. NEIL GAIMAN I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane. NEIL GAIMAN CORALINE'S STORY THERE WAS A GIRL HER NAME WAS APPLE. SHE USED TO DANCE A LOT. SHE DANCED AND D... NEIL GAIMAN Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I... NEIL GAIMAN Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly. NEIL GAIMAN Does it make you feel big to make a little boy cry? NEIL GAIMAN I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at t... NEIL GAIMAN 25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming swo... NEIL GAIMAN I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to lo... NEIL GAIMAN People think dreams aren't real just because they aren't made of matter, of particles. Dreams are re... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i... NEIL GAIMAN The gods we prayed to when we were young used up their time so long ago. They cannot answer anymore.... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and... NEIL GAIMAN Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curs... NEIL GAIMAN I am the mother of Odin's stallion, Sleipnir. I am the father of Fenrir Sun-Eater, and of Hel Half-R... NEIL GAIMAN He estado haciendo una lista de las cosas que no te enseñan en la escuela. Ellos no te enseñan có... NEIL GAIMAN I'll tell you a secret. A raven created the world. When Noah sent him out to find land, he couldn't ... NEIL GAIMAN It must be a real betrayal, when your body turns against you. I wonder if she likes flow... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ... NEIL GAIMAN Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in its own way. It glints and sparkles and flashes uni... NEIL GAIMAN Love takes hostages. NEIL GAIMAN We are all improved by the glow of memory. NEIL GAIMAN As-tu déjà été amoureux? C'est horrible non? Ca rend si vulnérable. Ca t'ouvre la poitrine et l... NEIL GAIMAN MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you, THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and out... NEIL GAIMAN Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I me... NEIL GAIMAN There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the... NEIL GAIMAN I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go. NEIL GAIMAN Can't say I've ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending ... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ... NEIL GAIMAN I would feel infinitely more comfortable in your presence if you would agree to treat gravity as a l... NEIL GAIMAN It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl... NEIL GAIMAN All around me darkness gathers, Fading is the sun that shone, We must speak of other mat... NEIL GAIMAN We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. NEIL GAIMAN We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the conseque... NEIL GAIMAN You don't have to stay anywhere forever. NEIL GAIMAN Then, one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...... NEIL GAIMAN Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and i... NEIL GAIMAN She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you k... NEIL GAIMAN I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn't that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she... NEIL GAIMAN We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things... NEIL GAIMAN It would have been hard for Fat Charlie to say exactly when the accumulation of birds on the wire me... NEIL GAIMAN You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a ph... NEIL GAIMAN Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more c... NEIL GAIMAN There was a smile dancing on his lips, although it was a wary smile, for the world is a bigger place... NEIL GAIMAN In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your heart. And every glitt... NEIL GAIMAN The [Five Second Rule] has many variations, including The Three Second Rule, The Seven Second Rule, ... NEIL PASRICHA Honestly, if you're given the choice between Armageddon or tea, you don't say 'what kind of tea? NEIL GAIMAN Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragi... NEIL GAIMAN Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or w... NEIL GAIMAN There's none so blind as those who will not listen. NEIL GAIMAN Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell u... NEIL GAIMAN There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire. NEIL GAIMAN For tea she went down to see Misses Spink and Forcible. She had three digestive biscuits, a glass of... NEIL GAIMAN She sat down on one of her grandmother's uncomfortable armchairs, and the cat sprang up into her lap... NEIL GAIMAN The cat looked as if it were about to say something sarcastic. Then it flicked its whiskers and said... NEIL GAIMAN For a moment she felt utterly dislocated. She did not know where she was; she was not entirely sure ... NEIL GAIMAN It won't hurt, said her other father. Coraline knew that when grown-ups told you something wouldn't ... NEIL GAIMAN There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud. NEIL GAIMAN On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Co... NEIL GAIMAN They were having an argument as old and comfortable as an armchair, the kind of argument that no one... NEIL GAIMAN The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be... NEIL GAIMAN The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges. NEIL GAIMAN You know I love you,' said the other mother flatly. 'You have a very funny way of showing it,' ... NEIL GAIMAN Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don'... NEIL GAIMAN Oh- my twitchy witchy girl I think you are so nice, I give you bowls of porridge And ... NEIL GAIMAN I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari... NEIL GAIMAN Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ... NEIL GAIMAN Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted. NEIL GAIMAN Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to... NEIL GAIMAN We are small but we are many We are many we are small We were here before you rose We... NEIL GAIMAN I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you. NEIL GAIMAN The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world. NEIL GAIMAN The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke... NEIL GAIMAN It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,... NEIL GAIMAN But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it? NEIL GAIMAN How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline. "I swear it," said the other mother. "I s... NEIL GAIMAN Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave. NEIL GAIMAN I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev... NEIL GAIMAN I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies. NEIL GAIMAN You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen. NEIL GAIMAN I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody... NEIL GAIMAN You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not. NEIL GAIMAN What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�... NEIL GAIMAN I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie... NEIL GAIMAN Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa... NEIL GAIMAN Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�... NEIL GAIMAN You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ... NEIL GAIMAN Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Fac... NEIL GAIMAN Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken. NEIL GAIMAN I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m... NEIL GAIMAN The enemy of idealism is zealotry. NEIL KINNOCK Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission. NEIL KENDALL New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. NEIL SIMON