This animal represents the transition from water to land?the part of history that includes ourselves.


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NEIL GAIMAN
I was kidnapped by aliens, they came down from outer space with ray guns, but I fooled them by weari...
NEIL GAIMAN
Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.
NEIL GAIMAN
Nothing’s changed. You’ll go home. You’ll be bored. You’ll be ignored. No one will listen to...
NEIL GAIMAN
We are small but we are many
We are many we are small
We were here before you rose
We...
NEIL GAIMAN
I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.
NEIL GAIMAN
The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.
NEIL GAIMAN
The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We ke...
NEIL GAIMAN
It is astonishing just how much of what we are can be tied to the beds we wake up in in the morning,...
NEIL GAIMAN
But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?
NEIL GAIMAN
How do I know you'll keep your word?" asked Coraline.
"I swear it," said the other mother. "I s...
NEIL GAIMAN
Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.
NEIL GAIMAN
I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got ev...
NEIL GAIMAN
I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.
NEIL GAIMAN
You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMAN
I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody...
NEIL GAIMAN
You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.
NEIL GAIMAN
What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it�...
NEIL GAIMAN
I’m not happy about any of this,” said Thor. “I’m going to kill somebody soon, just to relie...
NEIL GAIMAN
Fair enough,” said Thor. “What’s the price?” “Freya’s hand in marriage.” “He just wa...
NEIL GAIMAN
Because,” said Thor, “when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki�...
NEIL GAIMAN
You're a poem?' I repeated.

She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am ...
NEIL GAIMAN
Kiss a lover,
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure.

Fac...
NEIL GAIMAN
Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.
NEIL GAIMAN
I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll m...
NEIL GAIMAN
The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
NEIL KINNOCK
Some people follow their dreams, others hunt them down and beat them mercilessly into submission.
NEIL KENDALL
New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it.
NEIL SIMON
If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.
NEIL PEART
Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
JOHN NEIL
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
We have no proof, but if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we h...
NEIL ARMSTRONG
That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you ...
NEIL GERSHENFELD
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG
For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best...
NEIL ASCHERSON
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to us...
NEIL ARMSTRONG