William S. Burroughs Quotes

Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

William S. Burroughs

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• I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology.

  

  Lars Mikkelsen
  • Study
  • Military
  • Biology

• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Money
  • Think

• I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Back

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Different
  • Job
  • Language

• I think I'm a songwriter. I grab an instrument to make my body a song, but I'm not a player as such, maybe a little more on guitar, but certainly not piano.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Song
  • Player
  • Body

• With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Always
  • Afraid
  • Exceptions

• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Water

• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • Voice
  • Victim
  • Oriented

• The funny thing is that my husband couldn't be sweeter. He looks like this bad boy. He's got tattoos and earrings and a mohawk, but when you talk to him and he's around you, he's such a gentleman. He holds doors for ladies. He pulls out chairs. He cooks. He cleans.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Boy

• Like any group that has endured much, African Americans have created a strong and mutually reinforcing sense of group identity. That's not a bad thing in and of itself.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Bad
  • Strong
  • Identity

• Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • You
  • Now
  • Stock

• Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Time
  • Creative
  • Equality

• I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Public
  • Intellectual

• I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • School
  • American
  • High

• More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incredible music that wasn't widely heard before because it wasn't in the interest of those who feel they have to control the taste of the wider public.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Music
  • Heart

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• I've read that the ancient Chinese art of feng shui can bring a sense of peace, well-being, and positive energy to a home - same as beer.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Art
  • Home
  • Energy

• Eating-wise, I'm fairly disciplined. I have to be, because if you're not eating correctly, you're not giving your body the fuel it needs. So, I stay away from carbs after the morning, and I eat a lot of protein - fish, chicken, and no red meat.

  

  Kate Levering
  • Giving
  • Morning
  • Wise

• It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.

  

  Leon Russell

• How long will the heathens rage?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Rage
  • Heathen

• It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

  

  Charles Ferguson
  • Fashion
  • Problems
  • Tools

• The people, the culture... there's so much magic in Colombia, so I feel like being a kid, being able to have that, being able to also call Colombia my home, it was such an important part of my introduction as an artist, too, because it's such a big part of my life as a human being.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Black
  • Magic
  • Curse