Famous quotes containing the words william b and/or black:
“Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm?”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)