William S. Burroughs Quotes

Language is a virus from outer space.

William S. Burroughs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

Topics

CommunicationSpaceLanguageVirus

I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Jo Stafford

LovedDrivenJustDidReally

I've never gotten to do romantic comedy like most of the girls. Maybe because I'm fit, people assume that I'm not funny?

Jessica Biel

FunnyRomanticPeopleComedyNever

We're scared to death to try new things because we think we have to get it right the first time.

Joel Salatin

TimeDeathNew ThingsThinkNewTry

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Michael Arrington

WomenCollegeStartEngineeringWant

Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.

Amy Purdy

MusicFunMeRoadYouDown

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Stephen King

I AmBigFriesMacLiteraryAm

It is written that there shall be a separation, and the sheep shall be separated from the goats. The other preachers have the sheep; I have the goats. And I have a few sheep among my goats, but they are very ragged.

Sojourner Truth

SheepSeparationGoatsPreachersFew

I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.

Skeet Ulrich

AnymoreMuchUseNYULearned

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

Tom Clancy

JobFightSupportPeopleUniform

People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

SciencePeopleSayingNeedBased

I've so much respect for Chelsea, and I love them.

Michy Batshuayi

LoveRespectMuchChelseaThem

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

Douglas Horton

SimplePerfectionSkillTrueUp

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