Niall Williams Quotes

Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

Niall Williams

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• It's important not to think about Bitcoin as a replacement for cash or gold or something that works alongside that; it's to think of it as programmable money. And we just cannot even imagine what that will be used for.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Important
  • Money
  • Gold

• Psychiatry causes so much death.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Death
  • Causes
  • Psychiatry

• Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Things
  • Test
  • Certainty

• To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • Earth
  • Like
  • Saying

• You don't try to do more than you should.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Hate

• I love to write.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Love
  • Write
  • I Love

• I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Real
  • Together
  • Think

• I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm supposed to be. I'm comfortable with that, but in the same breath I'd do something edgy. If someone came to me and offered me an edgy and funny story, then I'd do it.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Story

• I am very much a Republican.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Republican

• I knew that I tend to always gravitate to the indie side of things.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Always
  • Things
  • Indie

• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • People
  • You
  • Yourself

• Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.

  

  Karen O
  • Amazing
  • Rock
  • Star

• The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Best

• In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Art
  • Today
  • Culture

• A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Star

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• Economic sanctions rarely achieve the desired results.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Achieve
  • Results
  • Economic

• You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

  

  Nellie McKay

• The business of living - that's your artwork, and the process of that is finding out who you are, what it all means.

  

  Susan Sullivan
  • Process
  • Living
  • Means

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Person
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Working with a green screen is so different than working with another human.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Human
  • Working
  • Screen

• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Happiness

• Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

  

  Niall Williams
  • Human
  • Mysterious
  • Creations