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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I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room and watch incredible things come out of it.
Mick Ebeling -
The government plans to bring in a new science, technology and innovation policy in 2013.
Vayalar Ravi -
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
Paulo Coelho -
If today I have to make a political statement, it is, 'I love beauty.' I think beauty makes people better.
Marjane Satrapi -
I've lived in Shepherd's Bush for five years with my friend Georgia in a cosy, cluttered flat.
Cressida Bonas -
'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