William S. Burroughs Quotes
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I remember standing on a medal podium at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, imbued with a sense that if you won enough basketball games, there was no such thing as poor, backward, country, female, or inferior.
Pat Summitt -
My soul is to sell. The dark is too hard to beat 'cause they're calling me.
Ellie Goulding -
There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.
Flannery O'Connor -
I'm gonna have to start winning some of the matches to call it a rivalry!
Andy Roddick -
It seems that boredom is one of the greatest discoveries of our time. If so, there's no question but that he must be considered a pioneer.
Luchino Visconti -
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Drew Carey -
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
John Chamberlain -
The laws of the colors are unutterably beautiful, just because they are not accidental.
Vincent Van Gogh -
We spend months inside them, then the rest of our lives getting babied by them.
William Jennings Bryan -
The rigid tree will be felled.
Lao Tzu -
I have never sought out the extraordinary or the scoop. I looked at what complemented my life. The beauty of the ordinary was always the source of my greatest emotions.
Willy Ronis