William S. Burroughs Quotes

Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

William S. Burroughs

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• Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • Past
  • Progress
  • Civil Rights

• Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • World
  • Great
  • Freedom

• I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Career
  • Success
  • Change

• It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Long
  • Want
  • Legacy

• All artists are equal when they are themselves.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Artists
  • Equal
  • Themselves

• It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

  

  Wade Davis
  • World
  • Realize
  • Extinction

• I think the building is in very good condition.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Good
  • Building
  • Condition

• If he gimme the word then I'm flippin the bird & then I'm spinnin around & I'm grippin the burn

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Bird
  • Ifs
  • Ass

• If you want to tell something to an athlete, say it quickly and give no alternatives. This is a game of winning and losing. It is senseless to explain and explain.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Game
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• I don't aspire to be like other drivers - I aspire to be unique in my own way.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Way
  • Unique
  • Drivers

• That's what it is all about, coming in and playing a game like it is your last. That's what we did. We fought on the defensive end, we fought trying to get rebounds, and we let the offense take care of itself.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Trying
  • Game
  • Offense

• The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Children
  • Age

• I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I'm the first one to laugh. I'm either to credit or to blame for the '80s.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Sorry
  • Laughing
  • Blame

• Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Action

• Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams. All of them are different styles, but those are the songs that make the times. They're the songs that last through time.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Music
  • Song
  • Style

• Monks, there are these two kinds of search: the noble search and the ignoble search. And what is the ignoble search? Here someone being himself subject to birth seeks what is also subject to birth; being himself subject to aging, he seeks what is also subject to aging; being himself subject to sickness, he seeks what is also subject to sickness; being himself subject to death, he seeks what is also subject to death; being himself subject to sorrow, he seeks what is also subject to sorrow; being himself subject to defilement, he seeks what is also subject to defilement. 6–11. “And what may be said to be subject to birth, aging, sickness, and death; to sorrow and defilement? Wife and children, men and women slaves, goats and sheep, fowl and pigs, elephants, cattle, horses, and mares, gold and silver: these acquisitions are subject to birth, aging, sickness, and death; to sorrow and defilement; and one who is tied to these things, infatuated with them, and utterly absorbed in them, being himself subject to birth ... to sorrow and defilement, seeks what it also subject to birth ... to sorrow and defilement.10 12. “And what is the noble search? Here someone being himself subject to birth, having understood the danger in what is subject to birth, seeks the unborn supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna; being himself subject to aging, having understood the danger in what is subject to aging, he seeks the unaging supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna; being himself subject to sickness, having understood the danger in what is subject to sickness, he seeks the unailing supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna; being himself subject to death, having understood the danger in what is subject to death, he seeks the deathless supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna; being himself subject to sorrow, having understood the danger in what is subject to sorrow, he seeks the sorrowless supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna; being himself subject to defilement, having understood the danger in what is subject to defilement, he seeks the undefiled supreme security from bondage, Nibbāna. This is the noble search.

  

  Bhikkhu Bodhi
  • Search
  • Danger
  • Sorrow

• We know our lands have now become more valuable. The white people think we do not know their value; but we know that the land is everlasting, and the few goods we receive for it are soon worn out and gone.

  

  Canasatego
  • People
  • Values
  • Valuable

• Danger is a very rare commodity in these times, monopolized by intelligence agencies and stuntmen.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Danger
  • Commodity
  • Agency