William S. Burroughs Quotes

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

  

  Gagan Narang
  • Good
  • Country
  • School

• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• 'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Horror

• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Men
  • Women
  • Dying

• We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Guidance
  • Professor

• My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Great
  • Wish
  • Honor

• All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Hollywood
  • Corrupts

• I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Work
  • Day
  • Proud

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
  • Mine
  • Appearances

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn't been scripted.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Focus
  • Politics
  • Presidential

• The chi of a room is important to me. If I walk into a hotel room and it doesn't feel right, I ask to change.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Important
  • Change
  • Walk

• The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Art
  • History
  • Light

• The concept of the value network - the context within which a firm identifies and responds to customers' needs, solves problems, procures input, reacts to competitors, and strives for profit - is central to this synthesis.

  

  Clayton M. Christensen
  • Value

• I'm pretty mercurial and a very difficult, long-winded decision-maker at the best of times.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • Long
  • Pretty
  • Decision

• I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

  

  August Strindberg
  • World
  • Beginning
  • Savage

• We must worship in truth. Worship is not just an emotional exercise but a response of the heart built on truth about God. "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth" (Psm. 145:18). Worship that is not based on God's Word is but an emotional encounter with oneself.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Truth
  • Worship
  • Response

• Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Truth