J G Ballard High Rise Quotes

#1. I want to be born and reborn as a cherry tree so that I may beautify this world with my blossoms, feed everyone with my nectar of love fruits, and purify the air with my calmly dancing leaves.

Debasish Mridha

#2. 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

#3. I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it

Steve Aylett

#4. Togetherness is beating up an empty elevator.

J.G. Ballard

#5. We learn by rearranging what we know.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#6. The rights we have as free individuals is the right to choose as we please.

Steven Redhead

#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. It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

Jodee Blanco

#9. 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart! v Try me and know my thoughts! [3] 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and w lead me in x the way everlasting! [4]

Anonymous

#10. Being whip is working with members, educating them, and trying to move legislation forward.

Kevin McCarthy

#11. Let my temptation be a book.

Eugene Field

#12. 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

#13. We are one with God and He loves us. Now if that isn't a hazard to this country-How're we gonna keep building nuclear weapons?

Bill Hicks

#14. Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

Jeff Garcia

#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. You are my only friend in the world, and I want to talk to you. Or, perhaps, be silent with you.

G.K. Chesterton

#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. New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.

Sara Genn