J. G. Ballard Quotes
'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'J. G. Ballard
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
Karen Mills -
I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
Umberto Eco -
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
Ed Balls -
There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
Edgar Wright -
Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. Barnum -
I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
Karen Bender
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan -
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
W. P. Kinsella -
There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
Kabir Bedi -
It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
Ian Mckellen -
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
Val Guest -
Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
Walter F. Mondale
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
Garth Brooks -
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis -
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
Queen Christina -
People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
Samantha Morton -
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
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The United States is the first nation to regularly conduct strikes using remotely piloted aircraft in an armed conflict. Other nations also possess this technology. Many more nations are seeking it, and more will succeed in acquiring it.
John O. Brennan -
Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of the Christ just might be the best short introduction to Biblical scholarship yet.
David Bergland -
I want to show everybody the diverse me and show people that I can do a tune on an R&B song, I can do a tune on a house song, I can do something on an Afrobeat. I really want to show that.
Kyla Reid -
I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
Pankaj Mishra -
The too-big-to-fail reform project is massive in scope. In my view, it holds real promise. But the project will take years to complete. Success is not assured.
Jerome Powell -
'If their work is satisfying people don't need leisure in the old-fashioned sense. No one ever asks what Newton or Darwin did to relax, or how Bach spent his weekends. At Eden-Olympia work is the ultimate play, and play the ultimate work.'
J. G. Ballard