Tad Williams Quotes

Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.

Tad Williams

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• There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • People
  • Nature
  • Technology

• I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Obsession

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • People
  • Believe
  • Earth

• It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Time
  • Funny
  • Starting

• I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Mad
  • Sane
  • Madman

• While awareness-building is a crucial first step, cohesive efforts are needed to translate this into real-world change.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • World
  • Real
  • Change

• So many organizations have a mentoring arm, but they don't really do it. Their idea of mentoring a kid is giving them general advice. But what they need to do is read with children.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Advice

• I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.

  

  Carl Yastrzemski
  • Great
  • May
  • Me

• I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled it, like Stevie Wonder. A lot of his stuff was on keyboards, but he used brass and he used other things as well. I was the first artist, also, to use drum machines. I was really the one who kind of started that whole thing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Think
  • Artist
  • Wonder

• I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Enjoy
  • Race
  • Event

• I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Night
  • Sleep
  • Better

• I wanted to be the best actor possible. I worked very hard at the craft of it.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Best
  • Possible
  • Craft

• Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

  

  Hafez
  • Fortune
  • Wheel
  • Twists

• There's no limit to what free men and free women in a free market with free enterprise can accomplish when people are free to follow their dream.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Oh, nobody would ever want to know me in Hollywood. I’m far too puffin-faced for that, too weird-looking. No, I think I’ll probably stick to telly, if telly’ll have me, though I wouldn’t mind doing radio plays as well.'

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Mind
  • Weird

• When you have to jump, you jump.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Jump

• When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook's strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

  

  Laurie Colwin
  • Alone
  • Cold

• I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.

  

  Elaine Equi
  • School
  • Language
  • Child

• I grew up in California, and when I read that Proposition 8 was on the ballot, I was disappointed because it seemed to be inconsistent with the spirit of the state, with the independence and diversity of the frontier that California has always been.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Up
  • California
  • Diversity

• I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

  

  Augustin Matata Ponyo
  • Small
  • Priority

• Perhaps he was a bumpkin; at least he was an honest bumpkin.

  

  Tad Williams