William S. Burroughs Quotes

Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

William S. Burroughs

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• In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Time
  • Live
  • Universe

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

• I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • World
  • Sports
  • Soccer

• Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Power
  • America

• I did anything that would get me on the air.

  

  Ed Bradley
  • Me
  • Air
  • Get

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Women
  • Know
  • Health

• To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Single

• Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Art
  • Envy
  • Blessings

• I'm a dad, and I can tell you it's the most beautiful thing in the world.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • You

• Somewhere, in some city in America, someone is wearing my clothes, and I'm happy with that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • America
  • Happy
  • City

• As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Hollywood
  • Most
  • Captain

• Something my mom and I have always said to each other is: 'We're not here for interviews. We're not here to get your picture taken. We're here to make a difference, and this is our opportunity to.'

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Opportunity
  • Mom
  • Picture

• Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Live
  • Common Sense

• I think it's going to deliver on the promises we've said it's going to and it is going to be the most successful product ever to come into the handheld environment, and it just happens to have a number of different functions.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Different
  • Environment
  • Successful

• I kind of think too much, I try do too many things at once.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Think
  • Kind
  • Too Much

• Are we really so far from the Victorians? Much of what our society holds important was shaped in the 19th century.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Important
  • Society
  • Far

• All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

  

  I. F. Stone
  • Nothing
  • Run
  • They Say

• Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Country
  • Running
  • Trump

• Because like all whores you value propriety. You are creature of capitalism, the ethics of which are so totally corrupt and hypocritical that your beauty is no more than the beauty of gold, which is to say false and cold and useless.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Value
  • Cold
  • Gold

• Some people have a phobia of midgets. They're, like, scared of them. I have the opposite - I see them, and I want to hold them down, cuddle them, be like, 'Come here, you little nugget. Who's your mommy now?' So cute!

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Cute

• I don't want to make music that is hot now; I want to make music that is hot forever.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Want
  • Forever

• Tell the truth once and for all and shut up forever.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Forever