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

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

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Try
  • More

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
  • Change
  • Jesus

• If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • You
  • Food
  • Safety

• Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Me
  • Mankind
  • Triumph

• I actually worked for a small company in Ohio that sort of farmed out work from Disney and Dreamworks, so I really only ever worked in two studios.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Work
  • Small
  • Company

• Your character is the harvest of your habits.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Character
  • Habit
  • Harvest

• No doubt that the U.S. is a super-power capable of conquering a relatively small country, but is it able to control it?

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Country
  • Power
  • Small

• There's a difference between 'glamour' and 'glam rock'. Glam rock, to me, is a bunch of straight, hairy, football-liking lager lads dressed up in mother's castoffs and glamour is a certain sophistication, a certain other-worldliness, a certain unattainableness, which I think we certainly calculate. We believe that a band should be slightly larger than life - you should be transported to an alternate reality. I'm giving you some really good answers here, I'm very proud of myself.

  

  Brian Molko Placebo
  • Believe
  • Proud
  • Glamour

• Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honorable race the world possesses.

  

  Cecil Rhodes
  • Opportunity
  • Human
  • Duty

• 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