American Gods Quotes

#1. Though I don't have any serious argument with Neil Gaiman's 'American Gods', I believe that Americans cease to be Europeans - the land makes them become Americans. You see it happening all the time when you travel around America.

Michael Moorcock

#2. You only get to be my age by assuming the worst." Mr. Wednesday, American Gods

Neil Gaiman

#3. 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.

Neil Gaiman

#4. 'American Gods' was designed to be, if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

Neil Gaiman

#5. One thing that I get from a lot of people with 'American Gods' is people saying that they would love some kind of glossary with a list of all the Gods and who they are, so that they can look them up.

Neil Gaiman

#6. As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Horace Mann

#8. American politician doesWe're going to bring back God and the Bible and drive the gods of secular humanism right out of the public schools of America.

Pat Buchanan

#9. What drives me is I love my profession. I love to do it.

Robert Duvall

#10. None so blind as those who won't see.

John Heywood

#11. Did someone actually have to do bad things to be a bad boy, or was it all about the potential? If it was the potential that counted, then maybe it was the restraint that was so sexy, knowing that he could do something dangerous and powerful but had the restraint not to.

Shanna Swendson

#12. Women survive their men. Men
men like him
don't live long when their women are gone. You'll see
he'll just start wandering, all the familiar things are going to be gone with her. He gets tired and he fades and then he gives up and then he's gone.

Neil Gaiman

#13. American law needs to reflect gods law.

Gordon Klingenschmitt

#14. Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

Neil Gaiman

#15. Mister whoever-the-fuck you are," said Shadow, just loud enough to be heard over the din of the engines, "there isn't enough money in the world.

Neil Gaiman

#16. who can describe beauty? The reader may smile at this as the far-off echo of a precocious calf love, but he will be wrong. There are beauties so unambiguous that they need no lens of that kind to reveal them; they are visible even to the careless and objective eyes of a child.

C.S. Lewis

#17. The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

Karl Abraham

#18. in the car. For seven floors, he's all mine. I dare

Magda Alexander

#19. People who do not believe in the same god or obey the same king are more than willing to use the same money. Osama Bin Laden, for all his hatred of American culture, American religion and American politics, was very fond of American dollars. How did money succeed where gods and kings failed?

Yuval Noah Harari

#20. My heart has never been broken, I've never broken anyone else's.

Mariah Carey

#21. There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#22. Anything electronic seemed fundamentally magical to Shadow, and liable to evaporate at any moment.

Neil Gaiman

#23. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

William J.H. Boetcker

#24. I'll buy a bottle for anyone who can tell me what makes a picture beautiful!

Edgar Degas

#25. I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don't need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It's what we do.

Neil Gaiman

#26. Without individuals we see only numbers: a thousand dead, a hundred thousand dead, "casualties may rise to a million." With individual stories, the statistics become people - but even that is a lie, for the people continue to suffer in numbers that themselves are numbing and meaningless.

Neil Gaiman

#27. There is only one reason of YOUR failure..
'You

Himmilicious

#28. You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Allan Houston

#29. The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.

Peter Manseau

#30. They say this was built by Frank Lloyd Wright's evil twin," said Wednesday. "Frank Lloyd Wrong.

Neil Gaiman

#31. And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

Neil Gaiman

#32. Without consciousness, space and time are nothing.

Robert Lanza

#33. Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

Neil Gaiman

#34. He started to list the coin vanishes he had mastered, which reminded him of the coin he had tossed into Laura's grave, and then, in his head, Audrey was telling him that Laura had died with Robbie's cock in her mouth, and once again he felt a small hurt in his heart.

Neil Gaiman

#35. Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.

Octavio Paz

#36. My last girlfriend was Greek," said the Iceman. "The shit her family ate. You would not believe. Like rice wrapped in leaves. Shit like that.

Neil Gaiman

#37. It's patterns," he said. "If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama anymore. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

Neil Gaiman

#38. It's all about the dominant fucking paradigm, Shadow.

Neil Gaiman

#39. Please?" he asked. He laughed once, nervous. "I'm in love with you"
After a long pause, I cringed at the words I was about to say. "If you knew what I know ... you wouldn't be."
He shook his head. "I don't wanna know. I just want you.

Jamie McGuire