J. G. Ballard Quotes

Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

J. G. Ballard

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• Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Support
  • Aid
  • Foreign Aid

• All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • World
  • Saying

• I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. I find myself talking to myself sometimes.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Night
  • Myself
  • Yourself

• Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • People
  • Life
  • America

• Israelis want peace and security, and Palestinians want peace and justice - these are two very different things, and this is the real gap we have to close.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Different
  • Real
  • Peace

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Never
  • Feel
  • Two

• Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Character
  • Genes

• There's all sorts of stuff people want to publish anonymously.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • People
  • Want
  • Publish

• The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Money
  • Survive

• I don't know what love means.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Love
  • Know
  • Means

• When I started out, there was so much work that I couldn't think of doing anything else. I would go for recordings by 8.30 A.M., that, too, in trains. I used to come home at night. I was travelling alone everywhere.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Work
  • Home
  • Night

• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • True
  • Mankind

• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Couple
  • Acting
  • Born

• There is, and there will be, an increasing demand for a principled global security provider, for a superpower that believes in multilateralism and cooperation.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Security
  • Will
  • Cooperation

• You probably don't need more weapons than what's required to destroy every city on earth. There's only 2,300 cities. So, the United States, by that criteria, only needs 2,300 nuclear weapons - well, we've got more than 25,000!

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • City
  • Nuclear Weapons

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Time
  • Wear
  • Shorts

• What drives the creative person is that we see it all.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Person
  • See
  • Creative

• When a salesperson truly cares about you, trust forms, and you're more likely to buy, come back for repeat business, and refer new customers.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Business
  • You
  • Trust

• When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • You
  • Best
  • Self

• I have a very precise memory of the local train, the hot bricks and copper boxes filled with boiling water to warm us up. Someone in another compartment was playing the guitar. To the rhythm of the train's rocking movement, I heard the chorus "Porque yo to quiero, porque yo to quiero," and I traveled toward my Tonio telling myself, "Because I love you ... because I love you.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Love
  • You
  • Memory

• Boredom is a fearsome prospect. There's a limit to the number of cars and microwaves you can buy. What do you do then?

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • You
  • Boredom
  • Limit