High Rise Ballard Quotes

#1. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

James Baldwin

#2. You said I told you I was in love with someone else, but I'm not. That's not what I meant. Cassandra was a part of my past, but our time together ended. The only person I want, the only person I love, is you.

Angela Corbett

#3. In a sense life in the high-rise had begun to resemble the world outside - there were the same ruthlessness and agression concealed within a set of polite conventions.

J.G. Ballard

#4. You want to be commercially successful and critically acclaimed. But the truth is, there's only a few Bruce Springsteens and Paul McCartneys out there.

Michael Buble

#5. Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

J.G. Ballard

#6. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#7. They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

J.G. Ballard

#8. As an adolescent, Vonnegut made my life bearable.

Jon Stewart

#9. West, pull your head out of your easel. Boxner

Josh Lanyon

#10. There is no life raft' you're just freaking swimming all the time.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. Man is a tool using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Thomas Carlyle

#12. Nanny Ogg was sitting out in her back garden in the no-nonsense way of old ladies everywhere, legs wide apart for the healthy circulation of air.

Terry Pratchett

#13. However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - they would both be present at a celebratory dinner when they reached the roof, he reflected with a touch of gallows-humour, but the poodle would be in the pot.

J.G. Ballard

#14. There had been moments when she felt he had almost forgiven her. She would always remember those moments.

Jane Austen

#15. The run-down nature of the high-rise was a model of the world into which the future was carrying them, a landscape beyond technology where everything was either derelict or more ambiguously recombined in unexpected but more meaningful ways

J.G. Ballard

#16. The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.

Woody Hayes

#17. She referred to the high-rise as if it were some kind of huge animate presence, brooding over them and keeping a magisterial eye on the events taking place.

J.G. Ballard

#18. Good marketing speaks to human beings - the way human beings understand and take in information.

Simon Sinek

#19. We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.

Caroline Myss