J. G. Ballard Quotes

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 15, 1930 - April 19, 2009

Topics

ArtChildhoodWarMePaintingWorld

I'm not a big punk fan, but I love a good, solid screamer.

John Grant

LoveGoodPunkBigSolidFan

People love Twinkies, and everyone knows about them, yet Hostess went bankrupt. Attention and commercial success have an uncertain relationship in business.

Andrew Yang

LoveSuccessBusinessRelationship

I make soul music for hip-hop heads. It's music I'd want to sample if I were a rapper.

Mayer Hawthorne

MusicSoulWantHip-HopRapperMake

Not even a superpower can hold onto its economic sovereignty if it fails to get its fiscal house in order, and no one needs a well-regulated international economic order more than the United States.

Michael Ignatieff

HouseMoreOrderHoldSovereignty

I've learned that it's important to listen to employees at all levels, to engage them, to empower them. Whether you're a first-line supervisor or the head of an entire agency, you should be asking career staffers, 'What do you think?'

Tom Perez

ThinkEmployeesYouCareerImportant

The idea of 'climate' - in quotation marks - is never going to be the issue. It's always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put 'climate' on the ballot, that's never going to move the needle.

Tom Steyer

YouQuotationNeverHumanAlways

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Roman Polanski

HappyFeelingAlwaysGetTerrible

There's a huge amount of faith and confidence in the stunt team.

Jason Statham

ConfidenceFaithTeamStuntHuge

I want to be so strong as an actor that people wouldn't say... eh, that's Josh Lucas.

Josh Lucas

PeopleStrongSayWantActorEh

When I became a teenager, I got very into clothing. I remember cutting Gucci advertisements and sticking them on my wall.

Jonathan Anderson

RememberGucciWallClothingGot

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Dennis Hastert

DeathEventJustTaxable

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality.

Chuck D

MusicLawyerThinkToo MuchIndustry

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