William S. Burroughs Quotes

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

William S. Burroughs

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• I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Everything
  • White
  • Certainty

• I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Words
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Day
  • Dying
  • Start

• I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

  

  J Mascis
  • Couple
  • Gold
  • Year

• My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Hearing
  • Suffered
  • Ear

• My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • You
  • Support
  • Tax

• I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Family
  • School
  • High

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.

  

  Taylor Branch
  • Think
  • Free
  • Less

• Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Work
  • Winning

• If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Good
  • Real
  • Character

• You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Work
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Money

• By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Excellence
  • Contemplation

• I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Person

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Character
  • Friends

• Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia.

  

  Piers Anthony
  • Good
  • Different
  • Done

• Tithing isn't the ceiling of giving; it's the floor. It's not the finish line of giving; it's just the starting blocks. Tithes can be the training wheels to launch us into the mind-set, skills, and habits of grace giving.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Giving
  • Floor
  • Ceiling

• I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Beautiful
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • World
  • Music
  • Think

• I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • World
  • Art
  • Beautiful