Famous Quotes & Sayings

William S. Burroughs

Cat hate reflects an ugly, stupid, loutish, bigoted spirit. There can be no compromise with this Ugly Spirit.

William S. Burroughs

I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink...

William S. Burroughs

How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.

William S. Burroughs

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.

Virginia Woolf

Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

Woody Guthrie

I love a good man outside the law, just as much as I hate a bad man inside the law.

Woody Allen

It figures you've got to hate yourself if you've got any integrity at all.

William Wycherley

Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.

William Shenstone

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

William Saroyan

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them?

William Saroyan

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it.

William Shatner

I hate flying, flat out hate its guts.

William J. Clinton

I hate it when people blame someone else and don't take responsibility.

William J. Clinton

I hate that man Obama more than any man I’ve ever met, more than any man who ever lived,

William J. Clinton

No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again

William J. Clinton

Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

William James

How many of us persist in a precipitate course which, but for a moment of heedlessness we might never have entered upon, simply because we hate to change our minds.

Will Ferrell

In every circle of friends there's always that one person everyone secretly hates. Don't have one? Then it's probably you.

Will Ferrell

I was a strange kid in that, while most kids hate school and want to turn 18 or 21, I loved high school.

Sarah Rees Brennan

When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

Sarah Silverman

I got jury duty ... and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?

Sarah Silverman

People are always introducing me as Sarah Silverman, Jewish comedienne. I hate that! I wish people would see me for who I really am — I'm white!

Sarah Bernhardt

We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.

Samuel Fuller

Film is a battleground. Love, hate, violence, action, death...In a word, emotion.

Samuel Fuller

A film is like a battleground. It's love, hate, action, violence, death—In one word, emotions.

Samuel Butler

Business should be like religion and science; it should know neither love nor hate.

Salman Rushdie

The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

Salman Rushdie

I hate admitting that my enemies have a point.

Salman Rushdie

Abraham Zogoiby covered his face that night in August 1939 because he had been assailed by fear, [...] a sudden apprehension that the ugliness of life might defeat its beauty; that love did not make lovers invulnerable. Nevertheless, he thought, even if the world's beauty and love were on the edge of destruction, theirs would still be the only side to be on; defeated love would still be love, hate's victory would not make it other than it was.

Salman Rushdie

I have always thought, the secret purpose of the book tour is to make the writer hate the book he's written. And, as a result, drive him to write another book.

Ryan Sheckler

I know exactly what I'm doing when I'm doing a trick. I really hate it when I fail.

Wendy O. Williams

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

Ward Churchill

Where do you get the gall to call the people who died in 9/11 technocrats when you sit around and get a $90,000 paycheck from the government you purport to hate?