J. G. Ballard Quotes

I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.

J. G. Ballard

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeImaginationProcessRealityUp

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.

Joel Madden

LoveMusicWhyBandFansJust

I believe we are going to move into a situation where the more effective conferences will be smaller, more specialized, more focused, with occasional large gatherings to get the attention of the larger world.

Maurice Strong

WorldBelieveAttentionSituation

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

John Sexton

MeTryingImageWithinStatement

I think when we use 'stress', we are often using a kind of dummy word to try to fit many different things into one big category.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

StressThinkKindTryThingsBig

Building prosthetics that allow people to get back to the fun activities in life is as rewarding a job as I can imagine. It's just as fulfilling for me as winning at the racetrack.

Mike Schultz

LifeJobFunPeopleMeBuilding

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

Mary Antin

LifeEducationCultureStepLeftHe

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

Logan Pearsall Smith

SoulLosingYouLookLeisureOut

As long as Elton John can bring forth one performance per album on the order of 'Someone Saved My Life Tonight,' the chance remains that he will become something more than the great entertainer he already is and go on to make a lasting contribution to rock.

Jon Landau

LifeGreatPerformanceChanceLong

I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I was very, very small, like, I was, like, 5 years old, I believe. And I remember going out there, you know, traveling to these states and living in these little tarpaper shacks that they had in Wyoming.

Dolores Huerta

GirlSmallBelieveRememberYouOut

History keeps teaching us that we can't recognize the important events that are going to trigger changes.

David Weinberger

HistoryImportantChangesEventsUs

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.

Claire Tomalin

BirthdayTiredMindFebruaryRest

What I've learned is that living in public life... it's impossible to have everybody like you. No matter what you do.

Antoni Porowski

LifeImpossibleYouLivingMatter

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