J. G. Ballard Quotes
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.
J. G. Ballard
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I'd been ready too, because before Olympic Games, I wasn't compete in big competition like, World Championship, like European Championship. I just competed in national competition.
Olga Korbut
Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
Adam Cohen
My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
Barry Commoner
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane
I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
Abraham Lincoln
I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
W. E. B. Du Bois
You not feeling me, fine. It costs you nothing, pay me no mind.
Jay-Z
Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.
Ahmed H. Zewail
Wood storks cool off by defecating on their own legs.
Elizabeth Kolbert
I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.
Lance Henriksen
The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause.
J. G. Ballard