William S. Burroughs Quotes

Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

William S. Burroughs

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• I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Hate
  • Memories
  • Trump

• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Cricket

• Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Two
  • Directors
  • Asian

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  

  Nathan Gamble
  • People
  • Work
  • Real

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Fact
  • Brothers
  • Clown

• When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Eyes
  • Look
  • Birds

• The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Try

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Decision

• Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.

  

  Karen Bender
  • World
  • Writing
  • Enjoy

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Life
  • War
  • Hope

• I'm an outsider.

  

  Jack Levine
  • Outsider

• I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Thinking
  • Working
  • Booked

• Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Long
  • Science
  • Change

• Movies don't look hard, but figuring it out, getting the shape of it, getting everybody's character right and having it be funny, make sense and be romantic, it's creating a puzzle. Yes, having been a writer for so long, I have an awareness of when things are going awry, but it doesn't mean I know how to fix them.

  

  Nancy Meyers
  • Long
  • Character
  • Funny

• In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.

  

  Alvin Ailey
  • Life
  • Long
  • Business

• My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.

  

  Jonathan Maberry
  • People
  • Fun
  • Funny

• I was doing some YouTube covers, and I had a decently popular blog on Tumblr.

  

  Halsey
  • Doing
  • Popular
  • Some

• I have a great family and great friends, and I think that they'll keep me grounded.

  

  Kelly Marie Tran
  • Great
  • Family
  • Friends

• No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Past
  • Enough

• Like Spain, I am bound to the past.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Past
  • Bounds
  • Spain