Tad Williams Quotes
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important.
Quotes to Explore
-
Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
-
Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
-
I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
-
I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
-
I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
-
You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
-
I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
-
I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
-
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
-
The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are dangerous in this regard.
-
Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
-
Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.
-
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
-
World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
-
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
-
I remember, as a kid, I'd follow the rooster and the chickens and watch what type of grass they'd eat. And me and my friends would eat that grass, like that was our lunch.
-
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
-
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
-
During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
-
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experience they want their children to have.
-
Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
-
Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
-
My children have very little interest in my work. The most important question they have for me is, 'What's for tea?'
-
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important.
