A Quote by William S. Burroughs

My relationships with my cats has saved me from a deadly, pervasive ignorance.

William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs
American - Writer
February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

My relationship with cats has saved me from a deadly and pervasive ignorance.

William S. Burroughs

If I was to ask you tonight if you were saved? Do you say 'Yes, I am saved'. When? 'Oh so and so preached, I got baptized and...' Are you saved? What are you saved from, hell? Are you saved from bitterness? Are you saved from lust? Are you saved from cheating? Are you saved from lying? Are you saved from bad manners? Are you saved from rebellion against your parents? Come on, what are you saved from?

Leonard Ravenhill

In 'We Were the Mulvaneys,' animals are almost as important as people. I wanted to show the tenderness in our relationships with cats, dogs, and horses. Especially cats.

Joyce Carol Oates

Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

Jean Craighead George

When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.

Phil Plait

We have relationships with many different things, creatures and beings. We have relationships with cats, with dogs, with horses, and we know that there are certain things they can't do. So we'll add robots to that list, and we'll learn what they can and cannot do. No harm, no foul.

Sherry Turkle

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Robert Fulghum

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.

Jim Rohn

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

Martin Luther

Foolishness is more than being stupid, that deadly combination of arrogance and ignorance.

Paul David Tripp

Everyone says I should leave it. But of all the cats I have saved, the one I remember is the one I can't catch.

Celia Hammond

So what do we do if we get bitten by something deadly?' I asked. He looked at me as if I were stupid. 'You die, of course. That's what deadly means.

Douglas Adams

There are several cats smoothly moving about, which helped me greatly to relax, for I have always felt that no house is wholly bad where there are cats, and conversely, where there are several cats, a house is bound to be wonderfully charming.