Tad Williams Quotes

Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.'

Tad Williams

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• I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Help
  • Team
  • Style

• Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Sound
  • Move
  • Cube

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Desire
  • Justice
  • Passionate

• This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Laugh

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• Find a type of exercise that you love - whether it's dance, soccer, softball, anything - just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you'll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • Dance
  • Exercise
  • Active

• The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Up
  • World
  • Place

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Past

• I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Words
  • Stop

• It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Important
  • Partner
  • Tea

• I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Students
  • Brown

• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Dream
  • You
  • Blow

• As an actor, you look for roles that can constantly challenge you and you can learn from.

  

  Talisa Soto
  • Challenge
  • Learn
  • Look

• The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Said
  • Pressure
  • Outside

• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • War
  • Understanding
  • Danger

• I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Father
  • Me

• When I was a child, the thing I wanted more than anything was to grow up and live in one house. Since my dad was in the Navy, that wasn't possible. Instead, I lived in a different home every couple of years.

  

  Kimberly Willis Holt
  • Up
  • Different
  • Live

• I knew I had a gift. I wanted the world to hear my music, and I wanted it to be my career, but I didn't know how to go about it.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • World
  • Music
  • Career

• A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Religious

• There is a way of beating ISIS so easily, so quickly, so effectively, and it would be so nice...I know a way that would absolutely give us guaranteed victory...the problem is then everybody will take the idea, run with it and then people will forget where it came from...I ran it past two or three people. It's so simple. It's like the paper clip.

  

  Donald Trump
  • People
  • Past
  • Nice

• Sometimes you men are like lizards, sunning on the stones of a crumbled house, thinking: 'what a nice basking-spot someone built for me.'

  

  Tad Williams
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • House