J. G. Ballard Quotes

No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the effects of prolonged exposure to the threat of nuclear war.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CarWarUpHerExposurePetrol

If we want to secure the best jobs in the future, we must make America the best place in the world to do business.

Jim DeMint

FutureBusinessBestWorldAmerica

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

John Bruton

TimeMeFinancialHorizonLongWill

I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds. That's really about it - I don't gravitate towards it, I try to move away from it.

Joey Santiago

PeopleGoTryAwayMoveLike

You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Stephanie Rice

YouKnowDoneWantEverythingLine

There is work, and there is pleasure; acting is pleasure.

Sofia Vassilieva

WorkActingPleasure

I love when people try to be physical with me. They think that's the way to try to guard me and to get physical with me. I use that to my advantage.

Trae Young

LovePeopleMeThinkWayTry

The eyes those silent tongues of love.

Miguel de Cervantes

LoveEyesSilentThoseTongues

I don't like drama.

Miguel Cabrera

DramaLike

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not. Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Janet Yellen

ProblemRoutineWillEmploymentFull

When I bought companies, it was done on trust, on a one-on-one basis, and with the intention of taking care of employees. Today, it's about who can bid the highest. There's no personal interest. It's a different world and one that an entrepreneur like me doesn't like much.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

TodayTrustMeWorldCareEmployees

I was listening to a lot of bebop. And to Miles Davis. Everyone thinks I was just in the folk world in 1966, but in 1963 and 1964, I was absorbing enormous amounts of music, from baroque to jazz to blues to Indian music.

Donovan

MusicListeningWorldBluesJazz

In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.

Debra Granik

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