Arthur L. Williams, Jr. Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
-
Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
-
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
-
People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
-
When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
-
Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
-
When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
-
I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
-
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
-
I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
-
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
-
The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
-
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
-
The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.
-
I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
-
Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
-
When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
-
If a writer doesn't do anything but give a new word to his language and, from there, maybe to other languages, I think that writer redefines the world.
-
Imagination needs to be fed.
-
Ultimately, we measure ourselves on the success of our investments.
-
I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
-
Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.
