William S. Burroughs Quotes

I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

William S. Burroughs

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• Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Fight

• Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Act

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
  • Train

• Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Up
  • Action
  • Animal

• If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• I don't think a living being should suffer for the sake of fashion, period. End of story. You don't have to kill an animal just because you want to be hot and fly. And I really stand by that.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Fashion
  • Period
  • Animal

• The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Animal

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Soul

• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Animal
  • Ears
  • Fence

• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Action
  • Pain

• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Happiness
  • Animal
  • Equality

• I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Animal
  • Create
  • Meat

• We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Country
  • Help
  • Food

• I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Animal

• Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Food
  • Animal

• I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Animal
  • Literature

• Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Fish

• For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the sun; we learned that we're just another species, evolved, like all other species, so we're just another animal, really.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Science
  • Animal
  • Learned

• There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Finish
  • Human Race
  • Farce

• The Romneys have a horse competing in the Olympics. Ann Romney's horse failed to win a medal in the dressage event today, which is a shame because if there's one thing that family needs, it's more gold.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Family
  • Today
  • Gold

• As competitive as I am, I want to get the best of a play and make sure to use it's full potential even when things break down. But sometimes you need to just say 'uncle' and let it go and avoid a hit.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • Uncle

• I am not a person and I am not an animal. There is something I am here for something I must do before I can go.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Animal
  • Persons