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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

If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
NEIL PEART

Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
JOHN NEIL

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ...
NEIL GERSHENFELD

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best...
NEIL ASCHERSON

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little ...
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sist...
NEIL SIMON

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no cl...
NEIL GAIMAN

Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
NEIL KENDALL

God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which migh...
NEIL GAIMAN

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand,
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Research is creating new knowledge.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine
NEIL ARMSTRONG

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful,
NEIL ARMSTRONG

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. - On the first moonwalk, July 20, 1969.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

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