Geoffrey Ballard Quotes

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

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• Fitzgerald was a modernist.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Fitzgerald
  • Modernist

• The most important thing to me with any politician is that they don't start wars, but education is a big part of that, too, because educated people are less likely to do stupid, violent things.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Important
  • Education

• When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

  

  Babasaheb
  • May
  • Bad
  • Man

• I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Day
  • Period
  • Modern

• Readers want to see, hear, feel, smell the action of your story, even if that action is just two people having a quiet conversation.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • People
  • Action
  • Conversation

• Never in a million years would I imagine Calvin Klein flying me out to my first men's fashion show.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Men
  • Fashion
  • Flying

• There is a big cry in California to stop everyone from running to Canada.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Running
  • Stop
  • California

• In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Business
  • Reading

• L.A. still ranks as one of my guilty pleasures, along with butter-pecan ice cream and Coldplay albums.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Guilty
  • Ice
  • Ice Cream

• I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • American
  • Perfect
  • Economy

• I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Moral
  • My Life

• Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Poetry
  • Mature
  • Immature

• I love dressing up.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Love
  • Dressing

• I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Remember
  • House

• Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • War
  • Democracy
  • Losing

• The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Good
  • Character
  • Bad

• I'm a fan of creating the mood and vibe with flowers, candles, and music. I love making my guests feel like it's not formal and they can relax in my home.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Mood

• I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Me

• We’d sleep in the same bed for a year, and finally we’d do it, but we’d never talk about it, ever, and then Ben would get married and I’d be killed in Texas.

  

  Bill Konigsberg
  • Sleep
  • Married
  • Killed

• I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

  

  Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
  • Interests
  • Communities
  • Developing

• As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Power
  • Short

• I think computers have changed things tremendously. At one time, you tended to take the rough with the smooth. But now, because you can go back and stop and start, and have a limitless amount of tracks if anything looks remotely good, we keep it. You've got to go through the agony of sounding very human at first, and then you work on it with the aid of technology. Computers have revolutionized things in many ways allowing me to work to a standard I could have only joked about fourty years ago.

  

  Steve Hackett Genesis
  • Things
  • Changed
  • Computers

• Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

  

  Geoffrey Ballard
  • Things
  • Because
  • Short