William S. Burroughs Quotes
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.William S. Burroughs
Quotes to Explore
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
Tamae Watanabe -
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
Venus Williams -
Show me a smile, and I'll show you one back.
Vanilla Ice -
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
Calamity Jane -
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
Parker Palmer -
I'm very strange, I'm not going to lie.
Kat Graham
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
Nate Diaz -
I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
M. C. Escher -
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
Zac Brown Band -
Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
Nate Berkus -
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Experts said public companies worry about the loss of customer confidence and the legal liability to shareholders or security vendors when they report flaws.
Barton Gellman
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
Harlan Coben -
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
Queen Elizabeth II -
I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
Kate Moss -
Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.
Jack Whitehall -
I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
Rachel Platten -
I don't really see myself as an actor.
Youssou N'Dour
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Life is a balance between holding on and letting go.
Rumi -
I feel you keeping me alive, you are my salvation.
Jen Ledger Skillet -
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss...
John Milton -
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
David Lee Roth Van Halen -
I keep cryin’ tears of joy. I guess that’s what you’re put here for- to change these tears of pain to tears of happiness.
Boyz II Men -
Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning.
William S. Burroughs