Marquis De Carabas Quotes

#1. The marquis de Carabas tossed the figurine to Mr. Croup, who caught it eagerly, like an addict catching a plastic baggie filled with white powder of dubious legality.

Neil Gaiman

#2. Any way, death is so final, isn't it?
"Is it?" asked Richard.
"Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.

Neil Gaiman

#3. The marquis de Carabas looked up at him. His eyes were very white in the moonlight. And he whispered, What's it like being dead? It's very cold, my friend. Very dark, and very cold.

Neil Gaiman

#4. What," asked Mr Croup, "do you want?"
"What," asked the Marquis de Carabas, a little more rhetorically, "does anyone want?"
"Dead things," suggested Mr Vandemar. "Extra teeth.

Neil Gaiman

#5. The Marquis de Carabas always had a plan, and he always had a fallback plan; and beneath these plans he always had a real plan, one that he would not even let himself know about, for when the original plan and the fallback plan had both gone south.

George R R Martin

#6. He calls himself the Marquis de Carabas," he said. "He's a fraud and a cheat and possibly even something of a monster. If you're ever in trouble, go to him. He will protect you, girl. He has to.

Neil Gaiman

#7. The Marquis de Carabas liked being who he was, and when he took risks he liked them to be calculated risks, and he was someone who double-and triple-checked his calculations. He

Neil Gaiman

#8. I went and lived in Chicago for a year , and I studied at the police academy.

Gary Oldman

#9. It doesn't make me very happy to be on my computer all the time. I've never been drawn to that world.

Lily Cole

#10. I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else.

Peter Baynham

#11. I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

Erik Hassle

#12. China is able to feed 23 percent of the world's population from 7 percent of the arable land - "by crowding some 2,000 human beings onto each square mile of cultivated earth in the valleys and flood plains," as Fairbank points out.

Robert D. Kaplan

#13. My people are my people. They love me and I love them. I would not be here without them.

Steven Seagal

#14. Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Jeff Ryan

#15. The mind WILL be free, or it will be dead.

Grace Llewellyn

#16. Excuse me,' he said. 'I know this is a personal question. But are you clinically insane?'
'Possible, but very unlikely. Why?

Neil Gaiman