William S. Burroughs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Justice is never given; it is exacted.
-
I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
-
Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
-
Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
-
Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
-
Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
-
When the phonies are expelled from their leadership roles and the Republican Party backs a moderate gubernatorial candidate acceptable to the rank and file with proper financing and the intestinal fortitude to fight the good fight, the rank and file will rejoin the fold.
-
And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
-
I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
-
You might expect that the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists would be there and they are.
-
I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
-
Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
-
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandparents. It was the most magical time of my life.
-
Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.
-
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
-
I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason - to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.
-
In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
-
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
-
Glory and gore go hand in hand.
-
I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
-
We are the world.
-
When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
-
Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?
