Fat Charlie Quotes

#1. The ties of blood," said Spider, "are stronger than water."
Water's not strong," objected Fat Charlie.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Fat Charlie thought it highly likely that Rosie's mum went out at night in bat form to suck the blood from sleeping innocents. He had mentioned this theory to Rosie once, but she had failed to see the humor in it. Rosie

Neil Gaiman

#3. Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won't be any crapper than I was.
Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet unplumbed.

Neil Gaiman

#4. 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

#5. Fat Charlie wondered what Rosie's mother would usually hear in a church. Probably just cries of "Back! Foul best of Hell!" followed by gasps of "Is it alive?" and a nervous inquiry as to whether anybody had remembered to bring the stakes and hammers.

Neil Gaiman

#6. Right," said Fat Charlie conversationally. "You realize, of course, that this means war." It was the traditional war cry of a rabbit when pushed too far.

Neil Gaiman

#7. So, she said. You met your brother.

You know, said Fat Charlie, you could have warned me.

I did warn you that he is a god.

You didn't mention that he was a complete and utter pain in the arse, though.

Neil Gaiman

#8. Fat Charlie saw one thing with his eyes, and he saw something else with his mind, and in the gulf between the two things, madness waited.

Neil Gaiman

#9. FAT CHARLIE WASN'T CERTAIN THAT HE LIKED FREEDOM. THERE was too much open air involved.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Fat Charlie, if someone ever ask if you want to live to be hunnert and four, say no. Everything hurt. Everything. I hurt in places nobody ain't discover yet.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Now what?" asked Fat Charlie. "Shall we all join hands and contact the living?

Neil Gaiman

#12. To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Jostein Gaarder

#13. To a greater or lesser extent, everybody's always being ordered and threatened and pushed around. There may not be anything better we could hope for.

Haruki Murakami

#14. I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.

Danny Boyle

#15. Just because you do something every day, doesn't mean that it isn't an accomplishment every time.

Anonymous

#16. As we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons. To dehumanize another inexorably means that one is dehumanized as well.

Desmond Tutu

#17. If we truly knew someone's entire life story and all the things they have been through we would drop all jealousy and comparison. We would admire their ability to shine.

Renae A. Sauter

#18. It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Blaise Pascal

#19. Trust people ... until they give you a reason not to. And then never turn your back

Nicholas Sparks

#20. Sex is the gateway to life.

Frank Harris

#21. The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers.

Charlie Bell

#22. This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.

Kevin Kelly

#23. I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.

Steve McCurry

#24. To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Plautus

#25. I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.

Walter Cronkite

#26. Wearing sunglasses at night hurts your eyes after a while.

Corey Hart

#27. Just be careful that your determination doesn't turn into your fanaticism.

Art Hochberg