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Smash the control images. Smash the control machine.


William S. Burroughs

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GREG A. MULLINS He'll smash your stereotypes, all right, and he'll probably smash your face if you look at him the w...
JACOB MCKIM When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
MIKE TYSON No, you just like smash.
MARIA MENOUNOS Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
ANON. Smash the Goals in your Life! You are the Unstoppable!
AVIJEET DAS He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,
GEORGE MOORE I completely lost my rhythm after missing that smash,
AI SUGIYAMA I think I'm really powerful. They'll smash me, probably.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL We played East Central football tonight. Smash mouth football.
TIM LASPADA We wanted to smash the stereotype and turn it on its head.
KRISTINE HANNA No one did more singlehandedly to smash the BNP in Britain than me.
NIGEL FARAGE If science could comprehend all phenomena so that eventually in a thoroughly rational society human ...
WILLIAM BARRETT They'd smash up the world if they thought it would make a pretty noise.
TERRY PRATCHETT Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
MARGARET HALSEY If you look at Reagan who had two [failed Supreme Court] nominees, who lost control of the Senate an...
KEN MEHLMAN Ever since I was little, I've always liked to smash things.
WENDY O. WILLIAMS If they want to smash them into bits, they can do that, too.
JANN WENNER It's going to be a smash mouth football game. No lead is safe.
KIP HAFEY Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
IDA LUPINO Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.
ELIZABETH SCOTT I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
BILL FORSYTH our means in America to control the money munching war machine, bright lit industry
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ELTON JOHN I bought these pink sticker things... and I would write things on them, and I wrote, 'I will wri...
BEBE REXHA What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps — they can just sma...
RICHARD CARROLL Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps — they can just sma...
RICHARD CARROLL Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps -- they can just smas...
RICHARD CARROLL I just hoped I didn't smash into that wall like I did earlier in the year, and just went on and caug...
DAMON HOLLINS I didn't think Comfort and Joy was going to be a box-office smash.
BILL FORSYTH Denver's commitment to giving contemporary storytellers the stage is crucial to the American the...
THERESA REBECK Obama's defiantly vowed not only to radically expand the reach of government from cradle to grav...
STEVE STOCKMAN In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a d...
JOHN UPDIKE When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads.
JOHN TURTURRO It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world world, neve...
FLORENCE + THE MACHINE The world is full of fools, and he who would not see it should live alone and smash his mirror.
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JACOB WREN Saturday?s march was good because everybody was together. This time, there are lots of young crimina...
CHARLIE HERBLIN I appreciate all the devices the Windows people are coming up with, but the operating system... I ju...
TIM DALY You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through ...
CAROL CHANNING You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one in...
CHARLES YU Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting...
ANTE KOSTELIC We had every right, and we were more than right ... just and moral to smash (Germany and Japan),
PAT BUCHANAN He was almost there, when...Smash! Crash! Bash! He slid down and mashed into engine hash the little ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Gorillas are very intelligent, but they don't have to be as delicate as chimps — they can just smas...
RICHARD CARROLL The terrorist seeks to smash the most fundamental liberty of all: the right to lead our everyday liv...
CHARLES KENNEDY It was more of a smash-mouth offense. It's designed to have options to every back, and it was foolin...
DANIEL FULLER Let an opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let an opponent smash into your flesh ...
BRUCE LEE You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes thro...
CAROL CHANNING I was hoping it would stay in the ballpark. I kept my eye on it. I was hoping I wouldn't smash into ...
DAMON HOLLINS Physical, physical, physical. Word on the street is that Big Ten is smash-mouth, hit-you-in-the-mout...
ROD WRIGHT If you regularly get the opportunity as a smash hitter at No 3, you practice for that. That is what ...
ANDREW HALL Make no mistake about it. Gun control is not about crook control. It's about America control.
DERRICK GRAYSON The mistake we had made was trying to control everything.
JONATHAN GILBERT It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.
BOB BARR This political machine in Mechanicville led by the Connors brothers is out of control and is infring...
JEFF BROWN We are carrying these images out into the world, and we can't control how people contextualize t...
BARRY JENKINS The anger and frustration is still as strong as it was right after we lost. We want to go down there...
AMANDA POPP We do live in a world with lunatic and mentally corrupted people, and still you expect I shouldn’t...
M.F. MOONZAJER 'Glee' is very easy to clown because I feel like it's just crumbling. 'Smash!' &...
RETTA The house has been used as a command-and-control facility,
and therefore it became a part of th...
DOUG HENDERSON I think we do have our true, original stories that work. I can tell you that 'The King's Spe...
HARVEY WEINSTEIN In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back ...
GREG GUTFELD It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.
SI ROBERTSON I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains ...
CAT CLARKE Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and ...
BRUCE LEE Ella was fluttering above him, dodging missiles and calling out advice: "The groin. The Earthborn's ...
RICK RIORDAN when I become death. Death is the seed from which I grow.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS We just wanted to come out and show the first half was a fluke, ... We came out and played smash-mou...
STEVEN ANDERSON You could put me on any track. I support that one million percent. Whatever the track is, I'm go...
BUSTA RHYMES [Did Gerald Williams go all out to catch Antonio Perez's smash that broke up the no-no? Or, since he...
FRAN HEALY You only have control over three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visual...
JACK CANFIELD If you want to drink, have a drink... if you want to drive, then drive... there's nothing worse than...
BERNARD MANNING In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in contro...
JERRY POURNELLE If your slave commits a fault, do not smash his teeth with your fists; give him some of the (hard) ...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL If I take a tumble, I'll mae quite a splash, but at least I won't smash against the deck and make a ...
L.A. MEYER If Republicans were to regain control of the Senate, the probabilities of some major tax cuts would ...
PAUL KASRIEL Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that S...
JAY LENO The people's army should always maintain a highly agitated state and be equipped with full fight...
KIM JONG-UN The groin. The Earthborn’s groin is sensitive.” SMASH! “Good. Yes. Tyson found its groin.” �...
RICK RIORDAN For the first time, our chemistry is sophisticated enough that we can take control of the machine th...
KARY MULLIS (A) bit old and wiser and not going as crazy as I used to on the field trying to smash blokes, I'm l...
ANDREW JOHNS Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling...
LUKE SCOTT The trouble is that the hockey stick graph become an icon and deniers reckoned if they could smash t...
MICHAEL E. MANN Build up your creditBuild up your self esteemBuild up your bank accountMoving up in the sceneEveryon...
CHRISTINE ANDERSON Hurricanes are like big suction cups, they lift the water underneath them, ... The combination of a ...
BOB MCDONALD Don't get yourself arrested and make your day worse! If you need to vent, just smash something that'...
R. STEVENS What are we going to do?" asked the Professor.
"At this moment," said Syme, with a scientific d...
G.K. CHESTERTON To control your life, control your mind. To control your mind, control your breath.
STEPHEN RICHARDS As a chess player one has to be able to control one’s feelings, one has to be as cold as a machine...
LEVON ARONIAN Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; an...
RICHARD STALLMAN I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those t...
VICKY MCCLURE To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is somet...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL She kept hitting the lines and going for her shots, but the closer it gets, she misses a smash. They...
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WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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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