J. G. Ballard Quotes

Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

J. G. Ballard

• Game
• Violence
• Games
• Lasts
• Joker

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Good
  • Leave
  • Tattoo

• We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Heroes
  • Conflicts
  • Tale

• The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • First

• Every sport has its own cast of characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Own
  • Every
  • Cast

• Love is the one wild card.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Way
  • Jesus

• I still have nightmares about taking tests.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Still
  • Tests
  • Nightmares

• I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Life
  • Stage
  • Performer

• I wear Rick Owens T-shirts to bed. They are like my thermals, since I sleep with the room at near freezing temperatures, like a meat locker.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Sleep
  • Bed
  • Meat

• Certainly there are great men whose age circumscribes them so completely that we lose interest.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Great
  • Men
  • Age

• I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Answer
  • Take
  • Fighter

• I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Exercise

• Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Game
  • Respect
  • Fame

• I learnt circus skills in drama group, so I can juggle.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Drama
  • Skills
  • Group

• I was a horrible student.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Student
  • Horrible

• Like any actor, I want to be able to have a long career and show different characters and a range.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Different
  • Long
  • Career

• Education in general, and higher education in particular, is on the brink of a huge disruption. Two big questions, which were once so well-settled that we ceased asking them, are now up for grabs. What should young people be learning? And what sorts of credentials indicate they're ready for the workforce?

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• After the first time I got traded - I was in the bullpen warming up for a game in Double A, and I got called back in and got traded - that was probably the, like, most crazy it could be. And once I got traded, the next time it got a little easier, and I got traded the next time - it's just part of it.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• Mentally ill people come from all belief systems.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • People

• I don't ever want to bring a child into this world without being as healthy as I can be; it's as simple as that.

  

  LeAnn Rimes
  • World
  • Simple

• I attended Amherst College from 1951 to 1955. The first two years were a revelation. There were innumerable exchanges with brilliant classmates, among them the playwright Ralph Allen, the classics scholar Robert Fagles, and the composer Michael Sahl.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • College
  • First
  • Classmates

• In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Funny
  • Gay

• Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Game
  • Violence
  • Games