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After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.


William S. Burroughs

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DON VINCENT Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to...
BRYANT MCGILL Plan Nine from Outer Space.
BELA LUGOSI William Thacker: 'I enjoyed the movie very much. I was just wondering, did you ever consider having ...
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NOTTING HILL This was exactly what I experienced in space: immense gratitude for the opportunity to see Earth fro...
RON GARAN There's no one else I would rather have as my manager than my mom because I know that she has ou...
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN We have one planet in our solar system that's habitable, and that's the Earth, and space tra...
RICHARD BRANSON You can't fix this from outer space. GPS is a waste of money, a waste of resources, a distraction fr...
ERIC LOTKE When people initially think of the term 'space archaeologist,' they think, 'Oh, it's...
SARAH PARCAK When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless....
SALLY RIDE Language is a virus from outer space.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To control the weather is to live on a Death Star.
ATOUR RITEN Earth is a small town with many neighborhoods in a very big universe.
RON GARAN Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will ...
MICHIO KAKU When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say...
CYNDI LAUPER I can take this data now, and I can look at it from any angle, that I want, you see, and this is wha...
DR. MICHAEL SMITH I would hold her up to the mirror and make her look at herself and I would say, 'Do you really want ...
CESAR RODRIGUEZ I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. The...
CYNDI LAUPER Look at Rihanna. She's so sexy. She comes from Planet Sexy. I worship her. I really, really do.
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JOE CUNNINGHAM After they look at it and see how their kids did, I would encourage them to speak with their teacher...
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DAVID MONTGOMERY Piggy’s self-esteem didn’t seem to ruffle from rejection after rejection, but that bitch is like...
JULIE KLAUSNER Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.
WALTER CRONKITE The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from oute...
DAVID SUZUKI A visitor from a distant planet might say of all of this, 'What are you doing? Why are you limiting ...
FLOYD ABRAMS I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads....
CYNDI LAUPER There are definitely parts of Asia, Central America that when you look at them from space, you'r...
SCOTT KELLY The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from oute...
DAVID SUZUKI Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I...
DAVID BECKHAM We saw it ourselves. You would look at the school, you would look, say, at a corner of the building,...
ELBRUS TETOV He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right ther...
PATRICK NESS It's more important what you leave to people on this planet. I want my legacy to exist now, curr...
ERIC BURDON If you look at it on paper, we are similar in a lot of ways. But I'll say this: If I had to choose o...
MARLON MCCREE This tells us that these things that we see out in space can survive interstellar space and successf...
DOUG HUDGINS He ran on this issue. He won on this issue, particularly in the outer suburbs including Loudoun and ...
STEWART SCHWARTZ The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at ...
THEODORE HESBURGH I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look...
SANDRA OH I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have...
JACK HANDY We're not going in there with any preconceived notions. We want to see him closing ground and gallop...
NEIL HOWARD …after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
JOHN WYNDHAM They asked me; who am I; and where am I from? I said, I’m an eartherian, born in a beautiful part ...
ANUROOP TYAGI I think that androgyny is so amazing. Men's shows I can look at and say, 'I would wear that....
MARK INDELICATO Have a peculiar passion, audacity and boldness that see farther and further into the outer space.
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You need a poetic touch from the outer space? Then you need the moonlight!
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SUN RA I have to say, after hanging out with Republicans for four days, I want to take a look at my own bir...
ANDY KINDLER While astronomers have been exploring outer Space, I have been exploring inner space.
STEVEN MAGEE We have a secret project at Third Man where we want to have the first vinyl record played in outer s...
JACK WHITE She told me that she had found an old house that she really loved. She would say 'I want you to come...
LUTHER HILL There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further...
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LEMMY KILMISTER We look forward with great anticipation to see the course that the National Space Council charts for...
BRUCE PITTMAN At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo -- slow, endangere...
BERNARD COOPER I don't know where my brain was. Somewhere it never was before. Well, I'm back from outer space.
BRET BOONE The light from the sun breaks through space, bathing our planet as it encircles the sun with life-gi...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson...
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DOUGLAS WILSON As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
BARBARA CARTLAND There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program -- your tax-dollar will go f...
WERNHER VON BRAUN There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go fu...
WERNHER VON BRAUN There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go fu...
WERNER VON BRAUN When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, The...
SULLY TARNISH peaceful utilization of outer space.
ZHANG QIYUE You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on th...
DANAI GURIRA when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space ...
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RUMER GODDEN When you see the Earth from space, you don't see any divisions of nation-states there. This may be t...
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MICHAEL WALSH I certainly would look at any and all possibilities right now. That's about all I can really say. I ...
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JOHNNY WEIR You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up t...
TOM HANKS future space travel = Your bus and taxi fare here is how u get the same idea that i have. goto any n...
APURVA GAGLANI I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race prese...
TED TURNER Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one bo...
ROBERT WILSON I think we all want to really live good lives, and we all really want to have a healthy planet, alth...
ANNE HATHAWAY From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
MARK HADDON The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see ...
HELEN SHARMAN The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be intere...
CARL SAGAN I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to ...
RACHEL SKARSTEN It's been going on for at least 80 years and as far as I can see it is going to go on for at least a...
ROBERT AUMANN Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, wit...
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JALINA MHYANA I would hate to see a tax increase of any kind, and I don't want to see any cuts in services.
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All the filth and horror, fear, hate disease and death of human history flows between you and the We...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Writers don't write, they read and transcribe.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I don't make myself work. It's just the thing I want to do. To be completely alone in a room, to kno...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We gotta find a way off this goddamn cop-ridden planet.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The best way to keep something bad from happening is to see it ahead of time... and you can't see it...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are like water creatures looking up at the land and air and wondering how we can survive in that ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All knowledge all discoveries belong to everybody. . . . All knowledge all discoveries belong to you...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS There is no line between the 'real world' and 'world of myth and symbol.' Objects, sensations, hit w...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL think...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas . . . a cosmonaut of inner sp...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS My purpose in writing has always been to express human potentials and purposes relevant to the Space...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is . . . LOVE.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I feel that any form of so called psychotherapy is strongly contraindicated for addicts. The questio...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS A junky runs on junk time. When his junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing is true, everything is permitted
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway was a prisoner of his style. No one can talk like the characters in Hemingway except the c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Thanks, for a country where nobody is allowed to mind his own business. Thanks, for a nation of fink...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's jus...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel s...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The boy looks into Mugwump eyes blank as obsidian mirrors, pools of black blood, glory holes in a to...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Some people like neat suburbs. I always am attracted to the rundown and the old and the offbeat.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and pena...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, be...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Nobody's busting into YOUR apartment at three in the morning, are they? Well, then don't worry about...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstor...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS To be an outlaw you must first have a base in law to reject and get out of, I never had such a base....
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS They are all stupid peasants, and the worst of all peasants are the so-called educated. These people...
WILLIAM S BURROUGHS Junk turns the user into a plant. Plants do not feel pain since pain has no function in a stationary...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS All over America, people were pulling credentials out of their pockets and sticking them under someo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any str...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, wo...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunc...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS May 4, 1985. I am packing for a short trip to New York to discuss the cat book with Brion. In the fr...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS In the beginning his flesh was simply soft, so soft that he was cut to the bone by dust particles, a...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Exterminate all rational thought
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS If I had my way we'd sleep every night all wrapped around each other like hibernating rattlesnakes.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS The aim of education is the knowledge, not the facts, but of values.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Did I ever tell you about the man
who taught his asshole to talk?

His whole abdomen ...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hip - Someone who knows the score. Someone who understands "jive talk." Someone who is "with it." Th...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Hemingway said:
'It don't come anymore.'
So where did it go?
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS