William S. Burroughs Quotes

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

William S. Burroughs

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• There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • You
  • Seeing
  • Pen

• Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • You
  • Will
  • Him

• I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Me
  • Nothing
  • Back

• I always say, I'm certain I changed 'Watchmen' less than the Coen brothers changed 'No Country for Old Men.' I'm certain of it. But you don't hear the Cormac McCarthy fans, like, up in arms about it. They should be. It's like an amazing Pulitzer Prize-winning book.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Up
  • Men
  • Country

• Politicians in Washington and Madison aren't hearing, aren't listening to their constituents and prioritizing getting people back to work and growing our economy.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • People
  • Work
  • Growing

• I am from the country, and I grew up mostly influenced by country music.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
  • Country
  • Influenced

• You didn't find comedy in 'Magadheera.' Any film high on emotions doesn't need such elements.

  

  Ram Charan
  • High
  • Comedy
  • Find

• I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Painting
  • Color

• I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Job
  • Simple
  • Stage

• Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Feeling

• I was involved with the Batman. There are two sides to every story. Now you've heard my side.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Batman

• On a scale of one to ten, I'm probably a six when it comes to flirting. I'm quite shy.

  

  Liam Payne One Direction
  • Shy
  • Scale
  • Flirting

• Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Music
  • Job
  • Joy

• My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Movie
  • Earth
  • Day

• I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Real
  • Love
  • Professional

• (Bob) Feller isn't quite as fast as I was.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • Pitching
  • Bob

• There are times when folks will point out certain characteristics I have, like me being an interruptor, and attribute them to my Jewish identity.

  

  Jill Soloway
  • Identity
  • Certain
  • Folks

• In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in its greatness.

  

  O. Henry
  • Small
  • New York
  • Greatness

• I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • One Day