Jg Ballard Quotes

#1. No one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have: ... there's a vast new intimacy and accidental poetry, not to mention the weirdest porn. The entire human experience seems to unveil itself like the surface of a new planet. JG Ballard, 2004

J.G. Ballard

#2. Welcome to JG Ballard's future, fast becoming a consensus of its own, wherein the future is intrinsically banal. It is, essentially, the sensible position to take right now.

Warren Ellis

#3. Not biology, but ignorance of ourselves, has been the key to our powerlessness

Adrienne Rich

#4. Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.

Dorothy Allison

#5. He methodically basted the dark skin of the Alsatian, which he had stuffed with garlic and herbs.
"One rule in life", he murmured to himself. "If you can smell garlic, everything is all right".

J.G. Ballard

#6. The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Thomas Malthus

#7. The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Jim Cantalupo

#8. Nobody is qualified enough to give advise on intimate relationships other than those sleeping with it.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#9. First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back to a state of childishness and even, perhaps, feel affection for him. Then, the moment he was asleep, cut his throat. The synopsis of the ideal marriage.

J.G. Ballard

#10. 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

#11. It is necessary to the success of flattery, that it be accommodated to particular circumstances or characters, and enter the heart on that side where the passions are ready to receive it.

Samuel Johnson

#12. No one has a problem with the first mile of a journey. Even an infant could do fine for a while. But it isn't the start that matters. It's the finish line.

Julien Smith

#13. Discipleship is all about living life together rather than just one structured meeting per week.

Francis Chan

#14. 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

#15. Oh, Evie ... " Daisy kicked morosely at a pebble. "I have the most horrible suspicion that Matthew Swift might actually be everything I ever wanted in a man.

Lisa Kleypas

#16. A healthy sweat comes from being passionate and throwing yourself into your workout. And again, it's achieving that intensity. I always like to say 'It's not how long, it's how strong'.

Jackie Warner

#17. You treat people with dignity and respect and they give it right back to you.

Bill McDermott

#18. I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being.

Jack Canfield