William Burrows Quotes

#1. The most important fact of this century is not that Earth is threatened in many ways, It is that for the first time in all of its history a decisive means of protecting the home planet exists. It is by using space.

William E. Burrows

#2. If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.

Jamaica Kincaid

#3. If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Bob Dole

#4. Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.

Heather Wolf

#5. France in August when you can travel through the entire country without encountering a single pesky Frenchman or being bothered with anything that's open for business.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. No matter that astronauts and cosmonauts had perished in precisely designed and carefully tested machines. Solid engineering could always provide a safety margin, because the engineers believed, there was complete safety in numbers.

William E. Burrows

#7. But consciousness (alternately referred to as "awareness") seems to be one of those things that although we know it when we see it, it's impossible to define.

Robert Kroese

#8. I've got a hat face. My mother always said I've got a hat face.

Jenny Eclair