J. G. Ballard Quotes
It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.
J. G. Ballard
Quotes to Explore
I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
Katee Sackhoff
I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
Fernando Flores
Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
Walter Benjamin
So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
Gavin DeGraw
When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
Dallas Roberts
In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
Rafael Nadal
Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
Adam Hamilton
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
Caitlin Rose
So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.
Barry McCaffrey
When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
Ha-Joon Chang
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.
Samantha Power
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Carl Bernstein
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
N. Scott Momaday
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller
The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
