Mr Vandemar Quotes

#1. I will not ask you where you have been tonight
I'll only say hello
and hope.

Rod McKuen

#2. It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

Josiah Stamp

#3. Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.

Neil Gaiman

#4. The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

Edward Burne-Jones

#5. Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.

Garrison Keillor

#6. There is a difference between Confidence and Arrogance..
Both look alike but stem from two very different sources..
One comes from Self Belief and the other comes from Ego..

Abha Maryada Banerjee

#7. Further movements are not recommended," said Mr. Croup, helpfully. "Mister Vandemar might have a little accident with his old toad-sticker. Most accidents do occur in the home. Is that not so, Mister Vandemar?"
"I don't trust statistics," said Mr. Vandemar's blank voice.

Neil Gaiman

#8. With cities, as with people, Mister Vandemar," said Mr. Croup, fastidiously, "the condition of the bowels is all-important.

Neil Gaiman

#9. Now me," said Mr. Vandemar.
"What number am I thinking of?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"What number am I thinking of?" repeated Mr. Vandemar. "It's between one and a lot," he added, helpfully.

Neil Gaiman

#10. 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

#11. Universities simply unable to play judge, jury and executioner when they're already having trouble playing educator. Resources are limited and colleges must put their focus on their primary objective: education.

Claire McCaskill

#12. The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.

C.L. Bevill

#13. Ideology brings about a disastrous fusion: that of violence and righteousness - a savagery without stain.

Martin Amis

#14. Most of the things we buy are wants. And we call them needs, but they're wants.

Dave Ramsey

#15. The style I have in judo is very unique ... One big advantage a judo player has is they have very good posture and - like, wrestlers, they show when they're about to do a take-down ... which judo players don't, and so I kind of incorporate the boxing style with a judo grip and finishing that way.

Ronda Rousey

#16. So Henry found himself stepping off the bus three stops early and wandering over to the Panama Hotel, a place between worlds when he was a child, a place between times now that he was a grown man.

Jamie Ford

#17. The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.

Seth MacFarlane

#18. People think it's how hard you kick that hurts,' Mr Vandemar's voice was saying. 'But it's not how hard you kick. It's where.

Neil Gaiman

#19. Circumlocution," said Mr. Croup to Mr. Vandemar. "It's a way of speaking around something. A digression. Verbosity.

Neil Gaiman

#20. The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.

Ramsay MacDonald

#21. If you cut us, do we not bleed?' Mr. Vandemar pondered this for a moment, in the dark. Then he said with perfect accuracy, 'No.

Neil Gaiman

#22. And you will never know how it feels to light up the sky. You will never know how it feels to be a firefly,

Gayle Forman

#23. They always scream when the eyeballs fall out.

Neil Gaiman

#24. If the US is a human melting pot, then Eastern Europe is a scrap yard.

Peter Zilahy

#25. Some of us are so sharp," he [Mr. Vandemar] said as he leaned in closer to Richard, went up on tiptoes into Richard's face, "we could just cut ourselves.

Neil Gaiman