Tad Williams Quotes

I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.

Tad Williams

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• I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Science
  • Human
  • Monster

• When you say 'control freak' and 'OCD' and 'organized,' that suggests someone who's cold in nature, and I'm just not. Like, I'm really open when it comes to letting people in. But I just like my house to be neat, and I don't like to make big messes that would hurt people.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Nature
  • House

• It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Play
  • Insecurity

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I believe that in the historic and religious nature, marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Man

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I'm not a snob. I can make a meal out of anything. I can eat anywhere.

  

  Cara Buono
  • I Can
  • Eat
  • Meal

• I never thought I would actually become a professional actor. I just kept going with it. One thing led to another.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Professional

• I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • People
  • Speak
  • I Can

• We tried to approach this as though there's never been a Superman movie before, but at the same time respecting the canon and mythology. There are the pillars that you have to respect, and I'm not about to break them. But it is fun for me to bend them and mess with them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Respect

• I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.

  

  Uri Geller
  • She
  • Me
  • Woman

• Xenophobia is dangerous, but patriotism is a good thing.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Dangerous
  • Patriotism

• At least two or three of the leagues in Europe over the last few months have said to us, 'We hope you go to the Olympics,' and I looked at them, and I said, 'Why?' and they go, 'Because if you don't send NHL players, we have to send our players, and that's way too disruptive to our season.'

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Hope
  • You

• All my friends from my past would know me as Scott Diggs. Taye Diggs comes from Scott-taye. When I went to college I liked it because it was so different and I have an infatuation with nicknames.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Friends
  • Know
  • College

• The only change I can really see is that I don't have to shop for pants in stores anymore.

  

  Larry David
  • Change
  • See
  • Pants

• Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most righteous. If I go to a mosque - and I'm a basketball player with money and prestige - if I go to a mosque and see an imam, I feel inferior. He's better than me. It's about knowledge.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Money
  • Knowledge
  • Player

• All that a pacifist can undertake-but it is a very great deal-is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Life
  • Great
  • May

• To the jury foreman in the second trial: 'Mr. Rodriguez? Can I ask you a question? What do you think a grown man up in his 40s is doing sleeping with one little boy after the next, all by himself, locked up in his bedroom, every night? That doesn't bother you? It bothers me.'

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Up
  • Night
  • Question

• The true simple question of the present dispute is, whether the House of Lords and Court Influence shall predominate over the House of Commons, and annihilate its existence, or whether the House of Commons...shall have power to....regulate the prerogative of the Crown, which was ever ready to seize upon the freedom of the Electors of this country.

  

  Charles James Fox
  • Country
  • Power
  • True

• Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

  

  Tobias Smollett
  • Nature
  • Should
  • Companion

• I embrace everybody, but you work everybody and each song at a time to who it is for. I believe that's how you build a palace. You build a palace one block at a time and then you'll have what you want. That's how it goes.

  

  BJ the Chicago Kid
  • Time
  • Work
  • Believe

• On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Light

• Trust is our gift back to God, and he finds it so enchanting that Jesus died for love of it.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • God
  • Love
  • Trust

• I shall endeavor to turn dross to purest Metal Absolute: in short, to teach you something.

  

  Tad Williams