William S. Burroughs Quotes
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.William S. Burroughs
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
Landon Donovan -
Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
Natalie Goldberg -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian -
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn -
As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
Kassie DePaiva -
At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
Cara Delevingne
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
Hamish Bowles -
My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
Yoko Ono -
Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'
Haile Gebrselassie -
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing had absorbed the shock, so that we were not uneasy about the motor in case of a landing of that kind.
Orville Wright -
I think golf is literally an addiction. I'm surprised there's not Golf Anonymous.
Larry David -
I didn't just get to 75 years by tiptoeing. I had to work hard sometimes.
Aaron Neville
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That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
Ada Lovelace -
It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
Laura Linney -
I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano -
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
Ted Rall -
I love any excuse to come to New York - when it's not February.
K. A. Applegate -
In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
Gary Cooper
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
Oliver Tambo -
I find it very hard to take myself seriously.
Max von Sydow -
Successful people are not people without problems. They are people who have learned to solve their problems.
Earl Nightingale -
I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song in mind for. It's not that I was trying to write that song for a year, but sometimes you just kind of collect lyrical and musical ideas and don't actually complete the song until you feel like they work together and have a home.
Andrew Hozier-Byrne -
Running a house should be left to innkeepers.
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas -
To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base. I never had a place I could call home that meant any more than a key to a house, apartment or hotel room. ... Am I alien? Alien from what exactly? Perhaps my home is my dream city, more real than my waking life precisely because it has no relation to waking life.
William S. Burroughs