J. G. Ballard Quotes

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

J. G. Ballard

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• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
  • Always
  • Mad

• I consider Rashi Khanna and Regina Cassandra as my best friends. They say there are three Rs in the Telugu industry: Rakul, Rashi, and Regina. All three of us debuted in the same year, and while we all compete for the same roles, we are still the closest, and we confide in each other.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Friends
  • Best
  • Year

• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
  • Children
  • Done

• Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Pride

• I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • School
  • High
  • Dance

• It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Leadership
  • Army
  • Lion

• I'm very, very lazy. I love to sit in a chair and look out the window and do nothing.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Look
  • Lazy
  • Window

• I don't think a lot of bands and artists work as hard as we do on the creation, on the writing, the arrangements and the recording in our format.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Creation

• A good proportion of foreign nationals in jobs in the UK are in semi or low-skilled occupations.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Good
  • Proportion
  • U.K.

• Actually, I never work in movies for money. I'm glad when I get well-paid, but it's not always the case - trust me.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Work
  • Money
  • Trust

• I don't need much coaxing.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Need
  • Much

• Head coaching options are limited.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Head
  • Coaching
  • Limited

• What value is there in faith without works? And what are they worth if they are not united to the merits of Jesus Christ, our only good?

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • Faith
  • Value

• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • School
  • Proud
  • Period

• I'm 100 percent convinced that Pablo Escobar was a human being. And he was a very interesting one. For sure, he was a very, very, very mean and awful human being in many senses, but he wasn't an alien. He was a person. He had friends; people laughed at his jokes. And he was a very contradictory person as well.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Friends
  • Interesting

• Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.

  

  Karen Black
  • People
  • Communication
  • Out

• Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Feeling
  • Christmas
  • Season

• One of the great lessons I learned about historical fiction from writing 'Loving Frank' is that you don't try to disguise what people did; my approach was to try to understand the characters and why they did what they did.

  

  Nancy Horan
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I loved my soap days. I really loved them. A Martinez and Marcy Walker taught me how to act, basically. All those people pulled together and helped get me started. Like, showed me how to hit my mark, made me do this, made me do that. That was my first long-running professional gig. And it was like, they were just - great, great with me.

  

  Ally Walker
  • People
  • Great
  • Long

• Despite reforms in steroid control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.

  

  Jim Sensenbrenner
  • Control
  • Serious
  • Baseball

• Act, and God will act.

  

  Joan of Arc
  • God

• Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

  

  Neil Postman
  • Americans
  • Exchange
  • Argue

• They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

  

  J. G. Ballard