Tad Williams Quotes

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

...Coca-Cola and fries, the wafer and wine of the Western religion of commerce.

Confident. Cocky. Lazy. Dead.

Though talent is wonderful, dance is 80% work and 20% talent.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

A well-aimed spear is worth three.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

When your teeth are gone, learn to like mush.

Every man is the hero of his own song.

Remember that each light between sunrise and sunset is worth dying for at least once.

As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had

People in science fiction flicks always seemed to know useful things about the places time travel took them. But what if the time traveler had been only an average history student? What then?

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

We are none of us promised anything but the last breath we take.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

When it falls on your head, then you are knowing it is a rock.

Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Wicked Tribe, Rooling Tribe! is the mejor hacker tribe. Too small, too fast, too scientific!

Dying men think of funny things-and that's what we all are here, aren't we? Dying men.

Tangaloor, fire-bright Flame-foot, farthest walker Your hunter speaks In need he walks In need, but never in fear.

The world was all mud and wire. The war in the heavens was only a faint imitation of the horror men had learned to make.

Humans turn the places they live into great crowded piles of mud and stone, like the nests termites build--but what happens when in all the world there are termite hills left but no bush?

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

The man who lives beside the water hole does not dream of thirst.

Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.

I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

When you stopped to think about it, he reflected, there weren't many things in life one truly needed. To want too much was worse than greed: it was stupidity - a waste of precious time and effort.

Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear.

It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great wheel...

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers.

A wolf is clever-clever-clever, and they are as faithful as a debt unpaid.

Was Briony the only person who could hear the venom dripping from the woman’s tongue? What good was beauty — a mature beauty, but beauty nonetheless — if it cloaked such a viperous soul?