William S. Burroughs Quotes

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• Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.

  

  Owen Arthur
  • Good
  • Great
  • Service

• A lot of times, when mother-son or mother-daughter relationships have been put on screen, they tend to trickle towards ugly, and I don't find that totally realistic for the wide swath of us, and it's also not that fun to watch.

  

  Dan Fogelman
  • Fun
  • Mother
  • Son

• I think there's no greater healing power than music.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Music
  • Power
  • Healing

• I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Think
  • Know

• Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Welfare
  • Liberal
  • Signing

• People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Time
  • Myself
  • New

• There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Eyes

• To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • True
  • Happy
  • Pain

• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Words
  • Opinion

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • New
  • Everything
  • New York

• I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Experience
  • Think
  • Age

• We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Writing
  • Study
  • Speech

• I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Want
  • Liked
  • Respected

• I'm not cynical.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Cynical

• It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • America
  • Myself
  • Doing

• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Speaking

• I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

  

  B. B. King
  • Want
  • House
  • Parents

• Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Writing
  • Today
  • Stronger

• With writing music and writing songs and recording music and coming up with stuff, you need to kind of reengage that kind of inner child to come up with interesting perceptions.

  

  Michael Kiwanuka
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Interesting

• I've been in show business for 50, no, 60 years. I was approached in school to join a variety act.

  

  Kenny Baker
  • School
  • Business

• The purpose of my writing is to expose and arrest Nova Criminals.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
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  • Criminals