Tad Williams Quotes

In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.

Tad Williams

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• I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Girl
  • Bike
  • Qualities

• When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Film
  • Festival
  • Showing

• The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.

  

  O. Henry
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • People
  • Great
  • Quality

• The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • American
  • Giving
  • Religious

• The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.

  

  Jack Lynch
  • People
  • Government
  • Innocent

• Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Strength
  • Graceful
  • Elves

• I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Present

• I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Change
  • Party
  • Problem

• Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.

  

  Larry Kramer
  • Taken
  • Very
  • Artists

• But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Question
  • Nothing
  • India

• You can't impose a legacy.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • You
  • Legacy
  • Impose

• I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Live
  • Think
  • Sports

• Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Child
  • Wind
  • Ocean

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• One of the specific powers and responsibilities of the federal government is to secure the borders. Property can be taken with due process of law and just compensation.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Taken

• I think the Baby Boom has enjoyed itself, maybe sometimes a little too much, and we're continuing to enjoy ourselves, maybe a little too much.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Sometimes
  • Baby
  • Enjoy

• My parents were both very musically inclined, they were both songwriters and musicians, so we grew up in the house singing music together, and R&B had a huge strong arm in the foundation of my career.

  

  Jesse McCartney
  • Up
  • Music
  • Together

• Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • Real
  • Gold
  • Buying

• Astley comes to my side. 'Are you well?' 'No,' I tell him, voice hoarse. 'I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again'.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • Deep
  • Broken
  • All-the-way

• I think I'm really part of a whole generational movement in a way. I think a lot of other people since and during this time have gotten interested in writing what we can still call experimental music. It's not commercial music. And it's really a concert music, but a concert music for our time. And wanting to find the audience, because we've discovered the audience is really there. Those became really clear with Einstein on the Beach.

  

  Philip Glass
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Gold