All Quotes

"I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of everyday life."

"As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be."

"It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes."

"I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see."

"Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outre results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable."

"There is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace."

"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."

"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."

"[Sherlock Holmes quoting:] "There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.""

"Singularity is almost invariably a clue. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home."

"Looking back, the process of coming up with the Lord of Dreams seems less like an act of creation than one of sculpture: as if he were already waiting, grave and patient, inside a block of white marble, and all I needed to do was chip away everything that wasn't him."

"Roger Zelazny died as I completed the first chapter of The Wake and his memorial informed the second chapter."

"Death is the only major character whose visuals didn't spring from me; that credit goes to Mike Dringenberg. In my original Sandman outline, I suggested Death look like rock star Nico in 1968, with the perfect cheekbones and perfect face she has on the cover of her Chelsea Girl album. But Mike Dringenberg had his own ideas, so he sent me a drawing based on a woman he knew named Cinnamon—the drawing that was later printed in Sandman 11—and I looked at it and had the immediate reaction of, "Wow. That's really cool." Later that day, Dave McKean and I went to dinner in Chelsea at the My Old Dutch Pancake House and the waitress who served us was a kind of vision. She was American, had long black hair, was dressed entirely in black—black jeans, T-shirt, etc.—and wore a big silver ankh on a silver necklace. And she looked exactly like Mike Dringenberg's drawing of Death."

"This is a work of fiction. Any resemblence to any real people (living, dead, or stolen by fairies), or to any real animals, gods, witches, countries, and events (magical or otherwise) is just blind luck, or so we hope."

"Taste me, you will see, more is all you need"

"Master of puppets I'm pulling your strings Twisting your mind and smashing your dreams"

"Master, Master Where's the dreams that I've been after? Master, Master You promised only lies Laughter, Laughter All I hear and see is laughter Laughter, Laughter Laughing at my cries"

"From a mundane standpoint, one might merely observe that Neil has arranged appearances here by every major occult figure in DC's history, to the possible end of introducing a new series character. And I do wonder whether Timothy will be back. It is more than a clever story however. It is rich and resonant. Like all good writing it causes the mind to wander off down byways by arousing speculations and leaving them to simmer... Neil Gaiman is a writer I have resolved to watch, and so far the effort has never failed to return more than the price of admission to his worlds."

"In this film, this loony preacher says that there's love and there's fear. And that's what makes the world like it is. I think that's almost right. I think it really comes down to love and fear. Sort of. Even though nobody ever talks about love and fear in science lessons."

"Love is the stuff that keeps things moving so they stay together. Fear is the stuff that makes things hold so still they fall apart. And sometimes you can have both of them inside you pushing and pulling you around, and thats when you cry or laugh."

"I don't know what holds the bloody world together. Unless it's Magic."

"In Faerie, there is only one time : Now. Twilight."

"The war has been shaping up quite nicely on all fronts, with no more than a nudge here and a tickle there. … People do insist on making life difficult for themselves. Peculiar things people... dead certain they know what they need. Dead wrong, more often than not. Stubborn as goats in a herd. Still even the dissidents have their uses. No need to search far for viable offerings these days..."

"No life 'til leather We're gonna kick some ass tonight!"

"When we start to rock we never wanna stop again!"

"Time Has taken it's toll on you The lines that crack your face Famine Your body it has torn through Withered in every place Pestilence For what you had to endure And what you have put others through Death Deliverance for you for sure There is nothing you can do"

"Living and dying, laughing and crying Once you have seen it you will never be the same."

"So come on Jump in the fire!"

"Jump by your will or be taken by force I'll get you either way."

"But we'll never stop We'll never quit 'Cause we're Metallica"

"The leathered armies have prevailed The Phantom Lord has never failed Smoke is lifting from the ground The riding volume Metal sound"

"No mercy for what we are doing No thought to even what we have done We don't need to feel the sorrow No remorse for the helpless one"

"Another day, another death Another sorrow, another breath"

"Scanning the scene in the city tonight We're looking for you to start up a fight"

"Searching Seek and destroy!"

"Joining together to take on the world with our heavy metal Spreading the message to everyone here, Come let yourself go"

"Do unto others as they have done to you, but what the hell is this world coming to?"

"Blow the universe into nothingness"

"Nuclear warfare shall lay us to rest"

"Fight fire with fire Ending is near Fight fire with fire Bursting with fear... We all shall die"

"Who made you God to say I'll take your life from you"

"Guilty as charged But damn it That ain't right!"

"Flash before my eyes Now it's time to die"

"Burning in my brain I can feel the flame"

"Take a look to the sky Just before you die It's the last time he will"

"Yesterday seems as though it never existed Death greets me warm Now I will just say good-bye"

"Life it seems to fade away Drifting further everyday Getting lost within myself nothing matters no one else"

"No one but me Can save myself But it's too late"

"From deep sleep, I have broken away No one knows, no one hears what I say"

"Life is for my own, to live my own way."