Vandemar And Croup Quotes

#1. Conversion requires an alteration of the will, and an alteration which, in the last resort, does not occur without the intervention of the supernatural.

C.S. Lewis

#2. All knowledge meets an end at the question ' ... Why?

Criss Jami

#3. True competence is based on one's own ability to observe.

L. Ron Hubbard

#4. I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete idiot at this time.

Emilie Autumn

#5. Have you been playing in toxic waste lately?

James Patterson

#6. It's always the ones we're not supposed to have who are the most irresistible.

E.M. Denning

#7. Hurley, hurley, round the table,
Eat as muckle as ye're able.
Eat muckle, pooch nane,
Hurley, hurley, Amen.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. You stay in the war because it would be shameful to stay out of it. An then grief seizes you and hold its grip till anger has turned you into a soldier.

Erri De Luca

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

Neil Gaiman

#10. You know, making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Eddie Murphy

#11. There would be a time when the world created people stronger than them. When all of this got worked out. But until then there would be women and men like Hanne and Alan, who were imperfect and had no path toward perfection.

Dave Eggers

#12. We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.

Erica Jong

#14. I've never believed in God. But I believe in Picasso.

Diego Rivera

#15. 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

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

Neil Gaiman

#17. 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