Walter Jon Williams Quotes

Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

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• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Like

• I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Myself
  • Name
  • Dirty

• Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Distance
  • Potential
  • Horizon

• You either make dust or eat dust.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • You
  • Eat
  • Either

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.

  

  Felipe VI of Spain
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• Every fight, I'm fighting blind opponents. I don't know who it's going to be, who I'm fighting, if I'm really fighting them.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Fighting
  • Fight
  • Blind

• I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.

  

  Yang Lan
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Society

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Work
  • Winning

• I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Man
  • Woman

• It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Up
  • Important
  • Strong

• It's super dope when you connect with something personally.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Something
  • Dope

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Done
  • Want
  • Pollution

• Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Music
  • Language

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

  

  Courtney Thorne-Smith
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Relationship

• Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more: They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store: They poor, I rich; they beg, I give;They lack, I have; they pine, I live.

  

  Edward Dyer
  • Live

• Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • World
  • Writing
  • Working