Anansi Quotes

#1. I kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Now, Anansi stories, they have wit and trickery and wisdom. Now, all over the world, all of the people they aren't just thinking of hunting and being hunted anymore. Now they're starting to think their way out of problems
sometimes thinking their way into worse problems.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Saul was going to kill Anansi.
They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.

China Mieville

#4. In West African and Caribbean folklores the role falls to Anansi, a spider who sometimes imparts knowledge or wisdom - and sometimes casts doubt or seeds confusion. Eshu,

Gabriella Coleman

#5. When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and I decided to just improv and make it my own. For a second, I felt like Kevin Hart because everyone was laughing. I just continued to do it. Why not?

John Boyega

#6. That's an Anansi story. 'Course, all stories are Anansi stories. Even this one.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Dormitories are even cooler than I thought they would be," Eva said. "They're like a prison, but the sex is worse," Braque said.

J. Ryan Stradal

#8. Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily against the pin. Now the meter broke.

Neil Gaiman

#9. I twist and pin my hair at the nape of my neck, and then stand with legs wide. It's what Nash told me to do before speaking because men, no matter how many times they profess women are equal, prefer to take direction from bodies like theirs.

Caroline George

#10. Revenge is the most worthless weapon in the world.

Tim LaHaye

#11. There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

John L. Phillips

#12. Angry gets shit done.

Neil Gaiman

#13. It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

Stephanie Dowrick

#14. Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

Neil Gaiman

#15. You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#16. Onerous moral strictures weed out the uncommitted and guarantee a minimum level of solidarity and trust within the group.

Eduardo Porter

#17. Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#18. The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Antonio Machado

#19. Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie's mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing as it did, edible foodstuffs. "Coffee? Water?" Don't say wax fruit. "Wax fruit?" Damn.

Neil Gaiman

#20. He had imagined Scotland as being a soft place, all gentle heathery hills, but here on the north coast everything seemed sharp and jutting, even the grey clouds that scudded across the pale blue sky. It was as if the bones of the world showed through.

Neil Gaiman

#21. I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves.

Brad Bird

#22. Black as night, sweet as sin.

Neil Gaiman

#23. All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Orison Swett Marden

#24. I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

Pliny The Elder

#25. DREAMS are the ones that WAKE you, SHAKE you and make YOU..........................................

Dreamer

#26. I've been through a lot of situations with women and if I can help someone else avoid the pitfalls that I've gone through then I'm happy to help.

Mayer Hawthorne