J. G. Ballard Quotes
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.J. G. Ballard
Quotes to Explore
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
Iris Chang -
Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
Eduardo Chillida -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
Jack Davenport -
Creating things sometimes is difficult.
Warren Littlefield -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis -
I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
Lara Stone -
I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
Sam Smith -
In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
Vince McMahon -
I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
Nancy Lublin -
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
W. H. Auden
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
Naomie Harris -
The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
Karl Abraham -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
Eduard Hanslick -
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
Beck -
I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
Young Jeezy
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I was supposed to be adopted when I was five, but then my adoption was pushed back by two years.
Oksana Masters -
We need to assure that we are nurturing our children and meeting their every need in this violent world.
Betty Williams -
A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall.
T. S. Eliot -
You are the smartest children i know. You just don't beleive it.
Trenton Lee Stewart -
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard