Niall Williams Quotes

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

Niall Williams

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• Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.

  

  Halle Berry
  • People
  • Mind
  • Black

• The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Voice

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Love
  • Memories
  • Sense

• The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Principle
  • Carry
  • Employees

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• But I would much prefer students going to college to learn and be prepared for the rigors of the new economic order, rather than dumping fees on them to subsidize football programs that, far from enhancing the academic mission instead make a mockery of it.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • College
  • Football
  • Learn

• Seek the seeker.

  

  Ramana Maharshi

• Give them pleasure – the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock
  • Up

• He drew a circle that shut me out - Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But Love and I had the wit to win: We drew a circle that took him in.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • Rebel

• Para poder alcanzar ciertas alturas, no las bajo: las levanto más.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Today
  • Simple

• Cheap jewelery should never be worn unless it happens to be something that you positively know suits you.

  

  Elsa Schiaparelli

• The POM bottle is sublime, in a way. When you go into a supermarket, you hear that noise everywhere: 'Buy me! I'm going to save your life! I'm going to make you thin!' When you come to that POM bottle, it's like an oasis of calm.

  

  Lynda Resnick
  • Life
  • Calm

• What I think a lot of great marathon runners do is envision crossing that finish line. Visualization is critical. But for me, I set a lot of little goals along the way to get my mind off that overwhelming goal of 26.2 miles. I know I've got to get to 5, and 12, and 16, and then I celebrate those little victories along the way.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Goals

• Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that 'all people are really interested in' are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

  

  Alastair Campbell
  • People
  • Life
  • Moments

• The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply.

  

  James Surowiecki

• I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

  

  Ben Katchor

• We're working together well as a Delegation in trying to ensure that Texas which has provided more support to evacuees than all the other states put together does get the support at the Federal Level that it needs.

  

  Lloyd Doggett
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Support

• After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old.

  

  Emm Gryner
  • Music
  • Inspired

• When I see my own people going through the tough times, it's a wake-up call. I hope my influence can impact someone else's decision to get out here and vote.

  

  Shad Gregory Moss
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• ...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Time
  • Men
  • Hope

• Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it’s definitely a Thing with Claws.

  

  Niall Williams
  • Hope
  • Feathers
  • Claws