British Quotes

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

Also, I've already won all the awards.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.

Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.

The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's chain than for apparent exceptions.

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time.

I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence.

Yesterday I was qualified, the Lord knows how, as your depute.

Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

A woman should be an illusion.

You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.