J. G. Ballard Quotes

Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

J. G. Ballard

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• Science
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• We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Women

• In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Men
  • History
  • Destiny

• What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Like

• Gay men in L.A. are all a bunch of tens looking for an eleven.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Men
  • Gay
  • Looking

• When I have a bad day, I dream about opening up a gelato stand on the streets of Sydney, Australia. Doesn't everyone have a random escape fantasy?

  

  Nancy Lublin
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Dream

• The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Live
  • Dream
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• I love science fiction.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Love
  • Science
  • Fiction

• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Kids
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Magic

• So I decided on science when I was in college.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • College
  • Decided

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

  

  Natalia Ginzburg
  • Men
  • Today
  • Disaster

• Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how to get the money to do that.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Money
  • Dream
  • Coffee

• I'm left-brain dominant, so anxiety and nervousness don't affect me; most emotions don't.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Me
  • Anxiety
  • Emotions

• It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Men

• Experimental evidence has now verified that nuclear reactions can be caused to occur in heavily loaded solids. It is premature to predict where this is headed from an applications point of view, but the basic science is clearly revolutionary.

  

  George H. Miley
  • Science
  • Revolutionary
  • Nuclear

• I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people.

  

  Jane Horrocks
  • People
  • Flying

• May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last!

  

  John Henry Newman
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• Nagasaki destroyed by the magic of science is the nearest man has yet approached to the realization of dreams that even during the safe immobility of sleep are accustomed to develop into nightmares of anxiety.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Science