William S. Burroughs Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I've always wanted my own fragrance; Avon pairs with the way I think: what they do and represent, what they do for women, and the good causes such as domestic violence, and breast cancer.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.
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The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Life is one big love story with hundreds of little love stories within it.
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Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.
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Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
