William S. Burroughs Quotes

A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

William S. Burroughs

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• I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Want
  • Now
  • Everyone

• The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Culture
  • Thought

• War is over if you want it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Want
  • You

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • She
  • Me
  • Team

• I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Events
  • Share
  • Destroy

• I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Style
  • Suits
  • Stick

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• I don't care who is attacking my son. I still support him; I still love him.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Love
  • Support
  • Son

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.

  

  Nate Corddry
  • People
  • Work
  • Game

• I've always danced. I've always been around it.

  

  Lacey Schwimmer
  • Always
  • Been
  • Around

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Future
  • Past
  • Difference

• Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• 'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Up
  • Age
  • Hope

• We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

  

  Deborah Tall
  • Children
  • Enjoyment
  • Anticipate

• Bodies have men as their masters, souls their vices and passions.

  

  Philo
  • Men

• An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox.

  

  Francois Truffaut
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Animal

• Hate and anger and disappointment and rage can be channeled in music into the most positive place.

  

  Brody Dalle
  • Music
  • Disappointment
  • Rage

• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Beautiful
  • Eye
  • Cat