Neil Richard Gaiman (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, graphic novels, comics, and films.
one I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you [Americans] treat it.
two I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.
three Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
four I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.
five It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
six It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
seven You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
eight Nobody's cool, if you've got kids.
nine We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.
ten Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?
one A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
two A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. ~ Fred Allen
three A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ~ H. L. Mencken
four The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault. ~ Henry Kissinger
five Living in L.A., everyone likes to mold you and change you. I don't care about fame, I don't care about being a celebrity. I know that's part of the job, but I don't feed into anyone's idea of who I should be. ~ Jessica Alba
six I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends. ~ Moby
seven [Being a celebrity] doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all. ~ Walt Disney
eight Imagine of all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stonewashed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on library shelves. And — since women are a majority of the population — we'd all be married to Mel Gibson. ~ P.J. O'Rourke
nine In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. ~ C. Wright Mills
ten The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair. ~ Anonymous
eleven You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important. ~ Victoria Beckham
twelve Celebrity-worship and hero-worship should not be confused. Yet we confuse them every day, and by doing so we come dangerously close to depriving ourselves of all real models. We lose sight of the men and women who do not simply seem great because they are famous but are famous because they are great. We come closer and closer to degrading all fame into notoriety. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
thirteen The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States. ~ C. Wright Mills
fourteen Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool. ~ Bill Maher
fifteen If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you've read his autobiography. ~ P. J. O'Rourke quotes
sixteen The whole celebrity culture thing — I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it. ~ Anderson Cooper
seventeen Oh, I wouldn't want to go on a date with a female celebrity. I'd rather go on a date with a real woman. ~ Casper Van Dien
eighteen I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can. ~ Charlie Kaufman
nineteen I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work. ~ Emilio Estevez
Some of these activities are quick, some take a long time, and some never end. Some have a purpose, while others are simply pointless time wasters. Enjoy!
For even more fun activities to do when you're bored, visit Bored Blog Almighty!
Gawk at photos
At Strictly No Photography see photos of places where photography isn't allowed ... taken by people who weren't supposed to take them! Link.
Or check out flickrvision. It merges Flickr photos with Google Maps in an interesting, voyeuristic slideshow of random, up-to-the-minute photos from around the globe. Link.
Rant
Think you've got it bad? Check out F*** My Life where anyone can vent about something in their life that's gotten them down. Hilarious, irreverent, and highly topical, read other people's FMLs and add your own. Link.
Change your mood
Listen to free streaming binaural beats at I Dose designed to alter your mood. Try Mirage to help with art & creative activities, Relaxation to calm down at the end of a busy day, Aspirin for headaches and general pains, and more. Link.
Spy on penguins ... or the Loch Ness monster
Check out what penguins are doing in Antarctica with these web cams. Link.
Or, see if you can spot Nessie in a live feed from Loch Ness! Link.
Change your look
Upload a photo to the DailyMakeover and try out celebrity hairstyles and makeup trends. Link.
Or try on thousands of virtual hairstyles at TheHairStyler. Link.
Send an extraordinary letter
Compose a letter online and the World's Smallest Postal Service will transcribe it in the tiniest of script, seal it with a miniscule wax seal, and send it with a magnifying glass so your recipient can read it. Link.
Or visit Oceangram. Put a message in a bottle and throw it into the virtual ocean, or pluck a bottle from the waves and read messages from around the world. You can even track your own bottles so you can see what kinds of comments get added to your messages by other people. Link.
Build a pet
Build your own fish, release it into the gigantic 24,000 gallon virtual tank and watch it interact with others. Link.
Read a book
Read a book at work! Thanks to this site, your boss will never know because it'll look like you're viewing a PowerPoint presentation. Link.
Or check out BookGlutton.com, a community for free online book reading. The site offers book clubs, book uploads and a web-based book reader. Link.
Decorate your desktop
Not only can you find really nifty, free, high-resolution desktop wallpapers at Social Wallpapering, you can also rate and categorize them. Link.
Rearrange the furniture
Move furniture around to your heart's content with this free online room design tool that makes it easy and fun to create a room design. Pick from a huge array of furniture and accessories, then just drag and drop. Link.
Become a superhero
If you've always dreamed of being a superhero, you can turn yourself into one at the Hero Factory. Link.
A roundup of 99 of the most popular viral videos for your viewing pleasure. Link.
Play!
TypeRacer is a social typing game that lets you match your speed against strangers or friends. Link.
Acrobots is a fun, unusal web toy that's perfect for whiling away the time. Link.
Falling Sand is one of the internet's most addictive time wasters. Just experiment with the choices at the bottom of the screen and you'll quickly get the hang of it. Link.
Letters lets you move letters around on the board and form words if you want. Be careful, though. Other people will keep trying to steal your letters (it is lot of fun to mess with other people's words)! Link.
Try some serendipity
In the mood for something random? Try randomwebsite.com for something completely unexpected. Link.
Or, how about Wild Mood Swings? It picks a site for you based on your mood! Link.
Watch paint dry
Seriously, check out the official watching paint dry webcam! Link.
one There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge ~ Bertrand Russell
two Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarliy be infinite. ~ Karl Popper
three In complete darkness, we are all the same. It is only our knowledge and wisdom that separate us. Don't let your eyes deceive you. ~ Janet [Damita Jo] Jackson
four We do not need more knowledge, we need more character. ~ Calvin Coolidge
five When you know a thing, to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. ~ Confucius
six For knowledge, too, is itself power. ~ Francis Bacon
seven If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
eight Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ~ Albert Einstein
nine To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
ten Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. ~ Abigail Adams
