J. G. Ballard Quotes

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ChangeGreatOptimismPoliticalWay

If you don't like or care about your job, what's the big deal? I am so over it.

Jessica Cutler

JobI AmCareYouOverBig

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

John Muir

GodLightMountainCalmWindowsUs

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Maurice Strong

MoneyWealthNeverRumorsBeen

I'm clear that we do need to improve what's happening in our schools.

Michael Gove

NeedImproveClearOurHappening

Riskin went into directing and made a film with Cary Grant which applied to the letter all the ideas which had made his comedies famous. It had everything except that little something - and the film was a failure.

Sidney Buchman

FailureIdeasFamousEverythingFilm

There's an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River.

Tommy Lee Jones

RiverPeopleLookingDestinyCountry

I liked Jim Carrey from the very beginning.

Robert Forster

BeginningLikedVeryJimJim Carrey

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process.

Roger von Oech

SuccessFailurePeopleThinkProcess

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Mary Roach

FoodPeopleWolfYouMouthMissing

I don't think I could set a book in a place without knowing it really well.

Judy Blume

BookThinkPlaceKnowingWithout

I like to play pool. When the ball goes in the pocket, you win.

Jason Isbell

WinYouPoolPlayBallLike

I think when I was doing 'Amistad,' I was just too young to really understand what the process was, and beyond that, I hadn't really got involved. It was just somehow - and I thought that the artistry was all in the theater.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

ThinkThoughtProcessDoingYoung

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