William S. Burroughs Quotes

There are no innocent bystanders.

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• When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • She
  • Best

• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Segregation

• You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
  • Career
  • Tennis

• I think back a little bit when President Bush was elected President and what kind of economy he inherited from the Clinton administration. The economy was going down. It was not doing well.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Kind
  • Doing
  • Economy

• God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Time
  • God
  • Perfect

• I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.

  

  Cale Yarborough
  • People
  • Help
  • Me

• Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Poetry
  • Actor
  • Writer

• Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance of God's loving-kindness; otherwise, sadness will harden the heart and lead it more deeply into despair.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Heart
  • Kindness

• I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for who I am.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • People
  • Life
  • College

• Forecasting by bureaucrats tends to be used for anxiety relief rather than for adequate policy making.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Anxiety

• Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.

  

  Ovid

• 'Over the MountainsOf the Moon,Down the Valley of the Shadow,Ride, boldly ride,'The shade replied, - 'If you seek for Eldorado!'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Moon
  • Shadow

• You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Life

• My fault has been honesty and I've been sentenced to a lifetime of independent movies, and that's it. That's how it feels right now.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Independent
  • Honesty

• Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Men
  • History
  • Growing

• High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Mind
  • High
  • Want

• I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Free

• What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.

  

  Anne Carson
  • World
  • Words
  • Small

• In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Help
  • Girl
  • Funny

• It is a high patriotic duty that we support and sustain the men who have been placed in position of difficulty, burden, responsibility, and even danger as the result of our suffrages.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Men
  • High
  • Support

• There are no innocent bystanders.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Innocent
  • Bystanders