I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.


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You don't go to Gettysburg with a shovel, you don't take belt buckles off the Arizona.
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The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit i...
ROBERT BALLARD
If people were really, really excited about Ford cars, people would buy more of them.
CHARLES BALLARD
Fifty percent of our country that we own, have all legal jurisdiction, have all rights to do whateve...
ROBERT BALLARD
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong ...
ROBERT BALLARD
H3 sales are through the roof. For every H2 we sell, we sell about three H3's.
ANDREW BALLARD
I wish it was made here, but it's not.
ANDREW BALLARD
I think overall, they have a slight downturn in sales across the country.
ANDREW BALLARD
Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them
BETTINA BALLARD
When I used to live in the Brewster Projects, I always thought it would be fantastic to have a phone...
FLORENCE BALLARD
Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Capta...
ROBERT BALLARD
Once You lose love, hope, faith, and confidence in yourself, you lose the people who care about you.
BRITTNIE BALLARD
[But many investors prefer to make offers to property owners before foreclosure.] A lot of times the...
MICHAEL BALLARD
Brakes are typically neglected. It's one of the more important things when you're cruising down that...
DAVE BALLARD
The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful in...
J.G. BALLARD
However, for all his affection and loyalty towards the animal, the dog would soon be leaving him - t...
J.G. BALLARD
First she would try to kill him, but failing this give him food and her body, breast-feed him back t...
J.G. BALLARD
Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.
J.G. BALLARD
All over the world major museums have bowed to the influence of Disney and become theme parks in the...
J.G. BALLARD
In big games like this, it just seems to come down to special teams every time. We won last year's g...
BILL BALLARD
In big games like this, it just seems to come down to special teams every time, ... We won last year...
BILL BALLARD
We did not know if he could get the job done, [but] he has played very consistent.
BILL BALLARD
These are high school kids and they make mistakes. Donnie otherwise played a heck of a game for us.
BILL BALLARD
If you've got one guy you're starting and he's not doing well, then you've got other people thinking...
BILL BALLARD
When I do a service I like to go overboard. I make sure it's ready to go. That should be done every ...
DAVE BALLARD
After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in a...
J.G. BALLARD
The net result of the competitive tender was that the ESA got two satellites for the price of one.
STEVEN BALLARD
If you're looking for youth, you're looking for longevity, just take a dose of rock 'n' roll. It kee...
HANK BALLARD
This is an unusual and dangerous situation. We really want to stress that to people. It's not going ...
ROBERT BALLARD
Science is the ultimate pornography, analytic activity whose main aim is to isolate objects or event...
J.G. BALLARD
Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral...
J.G. BALLARD
People no longer need enemies--in this millennium their great dream is to become victims. Only their...
J.G. BALLARD
I love the smell of male urine and the reek of his groin on my bath towels after he’d had a shower
J.G. BALLARD
The film festival measured a mile in length, from the Martinez to the Vieux Port, where sales execut...
J.G. BALLARD
The house was silent, but somewhere in the garden was a swimming pool filled with unsettled water.
J.G. BALLARD
The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary ass...
J.G. BALLARD
Sooner or later, all games become serious.
J.G. BALLARD
It doesn't get any sweeter than this. It really doesn't.
JEFF BALLARD
A postcard and I'm pining for New England. . .
AMY BALLARD
God's already blessed us because he spared our lives so it can't get no worse than it already was. A...
DOMINICK BALLARD
There's no city, no job, no home, there's really nothing to go back to.
DOMINICK BALLARD
There's nothing down South in New Orleans for us to go back to, so basically, this is a new slate fo...
DOMINICK BALLARD
We have nothing to go back to. I mean you know our foundation is gone. Now it's time to build anothe...
DOMINICK BALLARD
Right now this is our home for years to come. We don't have no plans on moving elsewhere but to anot...
DOMINICK BALLARD
Well, actually I have made the step to call them mom and dad.
DOMINICK BALLARD
Well, we had both looked at each other and decided, might as well, because we have nothing else to g...
DOMINICK BALLARD
Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...
J.G. BALLARD
Deserts possess a particular magic, since they have exhausted their own futures, and are thus free o...
J.G. BALLARD
We have a great location and facilities. We have things to do here that will attract people to come ...
DAWN BALLARD
No idea is too small or insane.
DAWN BALLARD
It's a good opportunity. We are not trying to run tournaments, just trying to facilitate things. Thi...
DAWN BALLARD