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

• I am the last Avatar in this present cycle of twenty-four, and therefore the greatest and most powerful. I have the attributes of five. I am as pure as Zoroaster, as truthful as Ram, as mischievous as Krishna, as gentle as Jesus, and as fiery as Muhammad.

  

  Meher Baba
  • Powerful
  • Present
  • Jesus

• The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Choice
  • Innocent
  • September

• I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

  

  Andy Roddick
  • People
  • Lost
  • Enjoy

• Dropping her hand, she turned in his arms. Then, rising up on tiptoe, she cupped his face in her palms and drew him down. Her kiss was innocent, vulnerable, a caress so gentle that it made him her slave between one breath and the next.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Up
  • She
  • Hand

• My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel Pepys, and Franklin Pierce Adams imitating Samuel Pepys. I was quite apt to throw in a "bless the mark" at any spot, and to begin a sentence with "Lord" comma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Style

• There are no innocent bystanders.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Innocent
  • Bystanders